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of C. arcticus, and, therefore, strikingly different from any speci- 
mens of C. septentrionalis examined by me. I was informed in 
November 1837, that about four years previous to that time, a 
bird agreeing with C. arcticus in full plumage was taken at Lurgan 
Green, county of Louth.* * * § On the 5th of March, 1847, H. Bell, 
wild-fowl shooter, saw one of these divers in full adult plumage 
on wing in Strangford Lough; he described it as the most beau- 
tiful bird he had ever beheld. One is stated to have been shot 
in the winter of 1847-48 in Dublin Bay.tJ 
Mr. B. D. Eitzgerald, jun., on the 23rd of July, 1850, passed 
within a few yards of three birds swimming in Tralee Bay, that 
he considered to be a black-throated diver with its two young. 
One of these he shcf, was hardly more than fledged, and had no 
quill feathers, but merely down in place of them. From its 
appearance he believed that it must have been bred in that 
neighbourhood. “ It agreed with the young C. arcticus of Selby 
and the Lesser Imber, considered by him as the same.” 
This species, so extremely handsome when adult, appears to be 
more rare in Ireland, in winter, than in England or Scotland. Very 
interesting descriptions of its habits about its breeding-haunts in 
Scotland are given from personal observation in the works of 
Mr. Selby, Sir William Jardine, and Mr. St. John.§ 
* Mr. H. H. Dombrain. 
f Mr. R. J. Montgomery. 
I In the Report of the Dublin Nat. Hist. Society for 1841-42 (p. 8) one of 
these birds is mentioned as having been shot in Tralee Bay ; but Mr. R. Chute, to 
whom the specimen referred to belongs, has informed me that he does not know 
where it was killed. 
§ ‘ Wild Sports, &c. of the Highlands,’ ch. xxvii. p. 215, and ‘ Tour in Sutherland,’ 
vol. i. pp. 8, 12, 40. These pages are particularized, as there is no index to either 
work. 
