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of the winter. According to Richardson, these birds frequent 
the shores of Hudson Bay up to the extremity of Melville Pen- 
insula, and are also abundant on the interior lakes, where they 
breed. Mr. Audubon found them nesting on the coast of 
Labrador near small freshwater lakes. Their food is similar 
to that of the preceding species. Fleming says that they 
breed in Zetland and the Orkneys. In Greenland and Iceland 
they also lay among the herbage on the shores contiguous to 
water, and make a nest of moss and grass, lining it with down. 
The young of this species, called the Cobble, is frequently 
seen in England in the winter in bays and inlets, and some- 
times in freshwater rivers and lakes. In the river Thames 
this bird attends the arrival of the sprats, on which it feeds, 
and is hence known to the fishermen by the name of the Sprat 
I.oon. From its diving habits it is frequently taken in the 
fishing-nets, to which it is attracted by their contents. It flies 
well, and dives and swims with remarkable dexterity, and 
while proceeding in the air is said to be sometimes very noisy. 
At Hudson Bay the young fly before the end of August, and 
the whole commence their migrations in the course of Sep- 
tember. These birds are common also to the Baltic and the 
White Sea, and are found in the inclement regions of eastern 
Asia, as in Kamtschatka and Siberia. 
This species breeds in high latitudes, and winters from about 
latitude 45° southward. 
