IIED-THROATEJ) DIVER. 
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NAT AT ORES. 
COLYMBJDjE. 
RED-THROATED DIVER. 
COLYMBHS SEPTENTRIONALIS. 
PLATE CXXIII. FIG. I. 
The Red-throated Diver breeds on various parts of 
the mainland of Scotland, as well as on several of the 
islands of Orkney and Shetland; we met with it upon 
the western coast of Norway, upon all those beautiful 
pieces of water there known by the name of Fiords, 
which, preserving all the blue freshness of the ocean, 
are without its boisterous grandeur, and fringed with 
wood to their very margin,—some of the birch-trees 
almost dipping their pensile branches into the briny 
water, — and possess even more than the beauties of 
our loveliest inland lakes. Few of the fresh-water lakes 
were without it; and upon most of the larger islands 
out at sea, where were small pools of water, a pair or 
two of these birds gave variety to the scene: indeed, 
although we met with their eggs upon the margins or 
on islets on some of the larger lakes, they seem greatly 
to prefer those smaller pools of water which are fre¬ 
quent upon the low, flat islands of the sea, or upon the 
boggy surface of the higher lands. 
The birds were very shy and wary, and would only 
in a few instances, when we were standing near their 
eggs, approach within gunshot of us. We one day found 
