. Coloured illustrations of British birds, and their eggs . nereousdusky ; the lower, whitish. The egg figured. 277 is that of the Northern Diver. D 3 28 NA TA TORES. COL YMB1D/K. PLATE CCLXXVIII. BLACK-THROATED DIVER. COLYMBUS ARCTICUS. The Black-throated Diver is an occasional winter visitanton the coast of Great Britain, as well as on some of ourinland lakes and rivers ; but it is less frequently met withthan the Northern Diver, and does not extend so farsouth: however, Mr. Selby having seen a pair on LochAwe in the month of June, is induced to think thatsome few remain to breed
. Coloured illustrations of British birds, and their eggs . nereousdusky ; the lower, whitish. The egg figured. 277 is that of the Northern Diver. D 3 28 NA TA TORES. COL YMB1D/K. PLATE CCLXXVIII. BLACK-THROATED DIVER. COLYMBUS ARCTICUS. The Black-throated Diver is an occasional winter visitanton the coast of Great Britain, as well as on some of ourinland lakes and rivers ; but it is less frequently met withthan the Northern Diver, and does not extend so farsouth: however, Mr. Selby having seen a pair on LochAwe in the month of June, is induced to think thatsome few remain to breed in our latitudes. The Black-throated Diver does not extend so far northas the Northern Diver, and seems also to belong moreto the shores of the eastern countries. In Greenland andIceland, this bird is not located; in Norway it is of rareoccurrence, but Finnland seems to produce more thanany other region; also Sweden, northern Russia andSiberia, as far as Kamtschatka are its chosen countries,from whence it is known to extend as far as Japan. : : % i s-^-^. BLACK-THROATED DIVER. 29 Although an inhabitant of North America, this speciesseldom occurs in the United States. In Holland andFrance it is a rare winter visitant, and still more so inItaly. It is remarked that this bird is nowhere so numerousas the foregoing species, but we may account for thissupposition in some measure, as it seems by far less socia-ble in its habits. The manners and general appearance of the Black-throated Diver resemble those of the former so closely,that there is great difficulty in distinguishing them fromeach other, unless the bird can be sufficiently approachedto see the colouring of the head and neck, and to judgeof its size, the present being considerably less than theformer. The powers of swimming and diving in this species, areequal to those of the Northern Diver, and its flight thesame, notwithstanding that its wings are shorter in pro-portion, when compared with the bulky size of the bird. The
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