FULMAR— GREAT NORTHERN DIVER. 345 
Genus — Fulmarus. 
280. Fulmarus glacialis. Fulmar. 
An accidental visitor to our coasts in winter. 
There are two specimens in the Hart collection, obtained 
near Christchurch, in November, 1863 5 January, 1880. 
One was procured off the Island in 1876.^ 
Order— PYGOPODES. 
Family — Colymhidce. 
Genus — Colymbus. 
281. Colymbus glacialis. Great Northern Diver, 
A winter visitor to the coast, rarely occurring inland. 
Young birds are not uncommonly met with along our 
coasts, as they keep fairly near the shore, while the old 
birds remain further out at sea. 
The following well-known passage in Gilbert White's 
" Observations," is taken from his Journal of January, 
1789 : — " As one of my neighbours was traversing Wolmer 
Forest, from Bramshot, across the moors, he found a large, 
uncommon bird fluttering in the heath, but not wounded, 
which he brought home alive. On examination, it proved 
to be Colymbus glacialis, Linn., the great speckled diver or 
loon, which is most excellently described in Willoughby's 
Ornithology." 
He then describes its peculiarities so accurately and 
' Hadfield. "Zoologist." 1877, 
