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tions which have hitherto been supposed to be Great Northern 
Divers. The specimens actually recognised as British are, as 
yet, few, one from Pakenham, in Norfolk, being in Mr. 
Gurneys collection; another from Suffolk recorded by the late 
Dr. Babington ; while a third is in the Newcastle Museum, from 
the coast of Northumberland. 
Range outside the British Islands. — The White-billed Diver is 
believed to inhabit the whole of Arctic Russia and Siberia to the 
islands of Bering Sea and Alaska, down to Japan in winter ; 
and Mr. Saunders believes that it is this species, and not 
C. glacialis, which is found in Jan Mayen Island, Spitsbergen, 
and Novap Zemlya. The species was found by Norden- 
skjold, during the “ Vega ” expedition, breeding on Tschuktschi- 
land, and Professor Collett believes that it visits the coasts 
of the North Sea in winter, coming from Siberia ; he has 
examined several specimens from Norway. It also appears, 
like C. glacialis and other Divers, to visit inland waters, as 
Ritter Tschusi zu Schmidhoffen records it from Hungary. In 
North America it is found in the Arctic Regions to the west 
of Hudson’s Bay, going south in winter, and occurring on the 
Great Lakes. 
Habits. — These are supposed to be similar to those of 
C. glacialis, but little has been recorded on the subject. 
Professor Collett says that some of the Norwegian specimens 
were caught in nets in which they had been entangled when 
diving. The largest male in the University Museum at 
Christiania, from the Porsanger Fjord, was taken on a hook 
which was laid at a depth of about fifteen fathoms. In the 
specimens dissected by him, the stomach was filled with remains 
of fishes, and had a quantity of gravel in it. One contained 
an example of a full grown female, filled with roe, of Coitus 
scorpius. Dr. Stejneger, who found the species a rare winter 
visitant in the Commander Islands, obtained a specimen 
in a rather curious manner. He says : — “ It was found sitting 
on the smooth ice of Lake Saranna (25th of November, 1882), 
unable to run upon or lift itself from the glib surface. It evi- 
dently had mistaken the transparent and shining ice for open 
water.” Von Tschusi relates a similar mis’ake on the part 
of a flock of Coots, Fulica aira, L. (cf. J. f. 0 ., 1874, 
