shell-fish, worms, and insects. To procure the latter, they resort to 
plowed fields, where they scratch the ground almost like domestic fowls. 
“They are tough, strong birds, requiring a heavy charge of shot to 
bring them down.” 
COLYMBID.E. 
9. COLYMBUS ARCTICUS PACIFICUS [Later.) 
One specimen, in adult breeding-plumage, washed ashore, dead. 
Nat. Mus. No. 
Original No. 
Sex and 
age. 
Date. 
70003 
47 
d ad. 
May 20,- 
