land, and, if hemmed up in a narrow tidal creek, will 

 generally rise and pass within easy shot of the boat of 

 the pursuer ; needless to say that the flesh of the Divers 

 is worthless, and that they are only worth powder and 

 shot for the sake of their skins and the chancy nature of 

 the sport that they afford. I may add that I have often 

 been requested by fishermen to shoot these birds on 

 account of their destruction of sprats and other desirable 

 small fry. 



The Red-throated Diver is a swift and powerful flyer, 

 and breeding throughout the northern regions of the 

 world, migrates in autumn as far south as Egypt. I 

 found it in some numbers upon the Lake of Geneva 

 during the winter, and have met with it abundantly on 

 the north coast of Spain, and sparsely in the Mediter- 

 ranean and Adriatic at that season of the year. The 

 only note that I have ever heard from this species is a 

 harsh guttural bark. 



