. The birds of Yorkshire : being a historical account of the avi-fauna of the County . RED-THROATED DIVER. 737 numerous, and is never altogether absent from the neighbour-hood of the coast-hne, as a few individuals, probably immatureand non-breeding birds, may be observed at sea throughoutthe spring and summer months. It is a regular and commonautumn or winter migrant to the seaboard and estuaries,immature birds arriving in early September and October,sometimes in great numbers ; on 20th September 1883, Isaw at least fifty at sea, flying to the south-east in advanceof an approaching storm, and
. The birds of Yorkshire : being a historical account of the avi-fauna of the County . RED-THROATED DIVER. 737 numerous, and is never altogether absent from the neighbour-hood of the coast-hne, as a few individuals, probably immatureand non-breeding birds, may be observed at sea throughoutthe spring and summer months. It is a regular and commonautumn or winter migrant to the seaboard and estuaries,immature birds arriving in early September and October,sometimes in great numbers ; on 20th September 1883, Isaw at least fifty at sea, flying to the south-east in advanceof an approaching storm, and during that autumn it wasunusually abundant. This bird occurs with tolerable frequency on inland waters,and has been reported from the river Hull at Beverley,Scampston Lake, the Derwent at East Cottingwith, GormireLake, and Semerwater, the Wharfe at Newton Kyme, MalhamTarn, and the reservoirs and large sheets of water supplyingthe populous West Riding manufacturing towns. It hasalso figured in the list of casualties at our coast beacons, animmature female, now in the York Museum,
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