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BIRDS OF LEICESTERSHIRE AND RUTLAND. 
Tomblin of the Coplow Farm. Turner told me, in October, 1885, of one 
caught in a pigstye, some seven or eight years previously. The late Mr. 
Widdowson informed Mr. Macaulay that one was caught alive at Nether 
Broughton, by Mr. Grreaves, on 2nd Sept., 1879. Mr. Macaulay informed me 
of a specimen now in his possession — which I have seen since it was set 
up — found in the Newarke, in the middle of Leicester, on the 30th Aug., 
1888, by a Mr. Harrison. It had evidently been killed by striking against 
something in its flight. Sex, unfortunately, not ascertained. 
Order PYGOPODES. 
Family COLYMBID^ . 
GREAT NORTHERN DIVER. Colymbus glacialis, Linnaeus. 
The only authority I have for including this species in the present 
list is a statement by the late Mr. Widdowson, that it “ has been killed here 
in immature plumage ” ; but as both of the following species, especially 
C. septentrionalis, so often do duty for this much rarer bird, I am inclined to 
think that, in this case as in many others, the species have become confused 
one with another. 
BLACK-THROATED DIVER. Colymbus arcticus, Linnaeus. 
A rare straggler from the coast, and seldom found inland in mature 
plumage. — Mr. Babington (Supplement ‘Potter') said: — “ Donington Park. 
Communicated by Rev. Thomas Gisborne.” Upon this Harley remarked that 
“ a second is reported to have been killed at Mountsorrel ” ; * that another — a 
male in mature plumage — was procured in a meadow below Leicester Castle on 
4th January, 1854, but, although shot, was alive when seen by Harley, who 
found it to be 4 lbs. 7 oz. in weight ; and another — “ a female in the plumage 
of the Lesser Imber of Bewick — was shot in the Abbey Meadow on the same 
day,” the two last examples, he considered, being probably driven inland by the 
gale which prevailed on 4th January, and the severity of the north-east wind, 
which brought a hurricane of snow. The Museum Donation-book contains 
an entry, under date 4th January, 1854, to the effect that an immature male 
was shot at a mill near the Abbey Meadow ; and that another, also immature 
(sex not stated), was shot at Aylestone on 10th January, 1854, and presented 
by Mr. N. C. Stone. Mr. Macaulay stated (‘Mid. Nat.,’ 1882, p. 72) that “one 
was shot on Saddington Reservoir in February, 1874.” 
* Harley’s informant appears to have been the late Rev. A. Evans, in whose ‘ Miscellaneous 
Bird Notes ’ the date 1850 is given. 
