96 THE ZOOLOGIST. 
whilst this impetus lasted, so that there would be no real 
floating, much less soaring. 
The depression in the grass which I have spoken of, where 
the dams sits with the chicks, only corresponds to the size of 
one parent bird, so that this alone makes it evident that the 
two do not sit together, side by side. This is after seeing two 
such depressions, for I have since found the one on the quite 
small loch, or rather pool, where I first saw these siestas in 
progress. Here, too, there was no suggestion of a nest other 
than the mere depression caused by the weight of the bird. 
From all appearances it would seem that the young Red- 
throated Divers stay on the lochs, into which, as one may 
say, they are hatched, until able to fly off them, presumably 
with their parents. 
(To be continued.) 
