456 BIRDS OF DUMFRIESSHIRE 
approach of spring ; and very few are procured or 
seen in full plumage. Mr. J. Harkness writes me that 
he received a Black-throated Diver in wmter-plumage 
shot at Powfoot (Cummertrees) in 1886, and a specimen 
was obtained locally towards the end of November, 
1890.* Mr. Hugh Mackay writes that a fine " two-year- 
old " specimen of the Black-throated Diver was brought 
to him from Lochmaben on March 4th, 1893, and adds 
that he had been informed that "considerable numbers 
frequented Lochmaben and vicmity during the past winter."t 
Mr. John Borland informs me that a bird of this species 
was found on the banks of the Nith at Shawsholm (Closeburn) 
in the early spring of 1908. 
During the breeding-season this species is found on the 
lakes of Scandinavia, Finland, north Russia, and across 
Siberia to the Pacific, migrating south in winter to the 
Mediterranean and the inland waters of Europe ; and in the 
east, to Japan. It also breeds in the north of Scotland, the 
Outer Hebrides, the Orkneys, and possibly the Shetland 
Isles, but it is the most uncommon visitor of its family to 
the British coasts. 
THE RED-THROATED DIVER. 
Colymhus septentrionalis, Linnaeus. 
Local names— Speckled Diver ; Loon ; Small Northern 
Diver. 
A common visitant to the Solway from autumn to spring. 
The Red-throated Diver appears off our coast about the end 
of September or in October, and departs in April or May to 
its more northerly breeding-places. 
* Dumfries Courier and Herald, January 22nd, 1891. 
t Trans. D. and G. Nat. Hist. Soc, May 12th, 1893. 
