. The birds of Berwickshire; with remarks on their local distribution migration, and habits, and also on the folk-lore, proverbs, popular rhymes and sayings connected with them . An example was caught near the village of Hutton in 1 Rain Goose—the Red-throated Diver (Colymhus septentrionalis, Linn.),thus denominated because its crying is thought to prognosticate rain. —Jamieson, Scot. Diet. Folkard in his Wild Fowler says the cry soundslike Kakeerah ! kakeerah ! 2 Old Statistical Account of Scotland, vol. viii. p. 74. 312 THE EED-THROATED DIVER. November 1876. It was unable to fly,
. The birds of Berwickshire; with remarks on their local distribution migration, and habits, and also on the folk-lore, proverbs, popular rhymes and sayings connected with them . An example was caught near the village of Hutton in 1 Rain Goose—the Red-throated Diver (Colymhus septentrionalis, Linn.),thus denominated because its crying is thought to prognosticate rain. —Jamieson, Scot. Diet. Folkard in his Wild Fowler says the cry soundslike Kakeerah ! kakeerah ! 2 Old Statistical Account of Scotland, vol. viii. p. 74. 312 THE EED-THROATED DIVER. November 1876. It was unable to fly, and had apparentlybeen driven inland by the stormy vi^eather. The Eed-throated Diver in breeding plumage has apatch of reddish chestnut on the throat, which disappearsin winter. It feeds on fish, molluscs, and crustaceans, andin diving uses its wings under the water in the same way aswhen flying. It breeds as far south as Jura, and in Iceland,and other northern parts of Europe. Although the Black-throated Diver {Colyiiibus arcticus)has been procured at the mouth of the Tweed,^ I have norecord of its occurrence in Berwickshire. 1 Hist. Ber. Nat. Club, vol. i. p. owslUwCrAiC 1 PYGOPODES. ( 313 ) PODICIPEDID^. THE GREAT CRESTED GREBE. CEESTED DOUKER, TIPPET OR SATIN GREBE/ GAUNT, CAR GOOSE,GREATER LOON, GREY OR ASH-COLOURED LOON. Podiceps cristatus. Thou cream-faced Loon !Where gotst thou that goose look ? Shakespeare, Macbeth, Act v. Sc. 3. During the autumn, winter, and spring months the GreatCrested Grebe is occasionally found off the shores of thecounty in small numbers. Mr. Hardy mentions that oflate years it has been noted as an annual winter visitor,and that it was very numerous in 1879, when some wereseen lingering on the coast as late as the 3rd of May.^ Headds that in the spring of 1880 it was observed for the lasttime in the season on the 22nd of March, and reappearedon the 20th of December following.^ In 1881 it left thecoast on the 29 th of April, and was no
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