EED-THROATED DIVER. 



COLYMBUS S EP TENTRIO NA LIS, Linn. 



Colymbus septentrionalis, Linn. S. N. i. p. 220 (1766) ; 



Macg. v. p. 301 ; Hewitson, ii. p. 453; Yarr. ed. 4, iv. 



p. 112; Dresser, viii. p. 621. 

 Eudytes septentrionalis, Naum. xii. p. 434. 



Plongeon cat-marin, French ; Rothkehliger Taucher, 

 German; Cadellot (Valencia), Agulla (Catalufia). 



This bird is well known on all parts of the coasts of 

 the three kingdoms, and is not infrequently met with 

 during the winter and early spring months at a con- 

 siderable distance from salt water ; but its breeding- 

 haunts in our country are confined to Scotland and its 

 adjacent islands, and a few localities in the north of 

 Ireland. The red-throat plumage is assumed in May, 

 and occasionally carried till late in the succeeding 

 autumn, but the great majority of the birds of this 

 species met with on our coasts and estuaries during the 

 months of late autumn and winter are white-throated, 

 and commonly known to fishermen as Sprat-Loons, or 

 Speckled Divers ; in this state of plumage I am very 

 well acquainted with this Diver, and have met with it 



