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give his fish to one of the two chicks, and not the other, seeming, 
by coming directly up to this one, and, I think, pushing him on 
a little, to separate him from the other one, with its parent, so 
that the two couples were a little apart from one another when 
he first put the fish he was carrying down on the water, where 
it was immediately seized by his protégé. He then seemed to 
have no farther care, but floated away, when the other chick 
made a rush at the favoured one, and endeavoured to get his fish. 
In this he should not have been successful, since the latter had 
had the first and best opportunity. Yet the fish did not appear 
to have been disposed of when the rush was made, and there 
was some scuffling (with, I think, one dive) between the two. 
After the feeding, the family began to separate, the male and his 
chick floating away from the female and hers, into the centre of 
the loch, whilst the two latter remained a little off the mouth of 
the bay. The male’s chick, however, went on swimming up the 
loch, and I there lost sight of him, whilst the male himself hung 
back, turned round, and in a minute or two—at 1.85—flew away. 
The segregation of the family life, as one may call it, is well 
seen in all this. When I arrived the mother and one chick 
were in a bay by themselves, at one end of the loch, and the 
remaining chick at the other end, in a certain accustomed place, 
no doubt where the male parent had left him when he flew off to 
catch a fish, which was before I came. It was only my appear- 
ance at his end which sent him down to the other, though he 
then, as the next best thing, joined-his other parent. The male, 
then, on arriving with his fish, singles out one of the two chicks 
in a noticeable manner, to whom he gives it, and when the 
feeding is over the family again divides. 
2.37.—I now, for the first time since his going up, see the 
solitary chick at his end of the loch, but swimming downit. He 
does not, however, come far, but having passed a little project- 
ing point of the shore, on the opposite side to his special one, 
goes back and disappears behind it. I did not see him, when he 
went up the loch, go round his usual point, but he simply dis- 
appeared ; he may not, therefore, have done so—which would be 
a fresh departure. 
4.30.—Female off. Her flight up from the water is very sudden. 
Between the time of the last feeding and now, she and the chick 
