the larger generally three inches in length and an inch and eleven-

olive-brown, or dull greenish-brown, or pale brownish-green
The male continues with the female, and

of the same nest very unequal in size 5
They are of a deep or pale

colour, spotted and dotted with umber, mostly at the larger end.
: ; 5 » evos occasionally > female continues to sit crouching . a
is said to take his place on the eggs occasionally. The female continues ouching over her eggs
n she starts forward, plunges into the water, and, on emerging, usually takes
great anxiety, as does the male also, should he happen to be
be heard for several evenings lamenting their loss
hat resemble those of the Gannet. .The

twelfths in breadth.

until you come very near, whe
, but sometimes swims about with
On being ‘deprived of their eggs, they may
The usual notes are harsh, and somew
irth, and continue there, under the guidance of their

to the sea. The eggs are laid in the

to wing
present.

with loud melancholy cries.
es to the water soon after b

able to fly, when they all wing their way
ig fledged by the middle of August.

Great Northern Diver to fishing close to the margin of the sea, by
the firths and lochs, and many frequenting the open sea at A
lakes, it is extremely vigilant and

young betake themselv
parents, until they are
beginning of June, and the you

« This bird is less addicted than the
far the greater number keeping well out in
In the breeding-season, when on freshwater
with elevated head, when any one appears even at a distance, and
en it caught on one of the hooks of a fishing-line, baited
g- and salmon-nets. It is very tenacious of life,

great distance from land.
suspicious, swims off to the opposite side,
cannot be shot without much trouble. I have se
a sand-eel, and it is sometimes entangled in the herrin
amonly escapes, as it can easily outstrip a boat.”

note, obligingly communicated to me by Mr. H. Stevenson, of
n Norfolk—a county which, being washed by the sea, has many

with
and, although severely wounded, com

To this I may append the following
Norwich, on the occurrence of the bird 1
localities suited to its habits, though not for breeding-places.

“The Red-throated Diver is both an annual and, in some seasons, a pretty numerous visitant in autumn
and winter, Both young and
old birds are obtained on the coast, as well as on the Broads, between the first week of October and the
rty specimens, much less frequently on

following the shoals of herrings along our coast with great pertinacity.

end of February, but, judging from my own notes of some thi
fresh inland waters than the Black-throated species. From frequent opportunities of examining examples
of this bird, I cannot help concluding that its summer dress is both retained and reassumed later than in
either of the other species, and that the specimens mentioned by Audubon as having red throats in February
had not then lost the plumage of the previous summer. Whenever these birds appear very early in autumn,
say from the first to the third week of October, some few birds are sure to exhibit the red throat as
perfect as it is during the breeding-season, and others in every state of change occur at the same time ;
but I have never observed any traces of red in specimens shot in November or any later period.

“Tt is only occasionally, however, that these birds appear early enough to present their full summer dress ;
and this was particularly the case in the autumn of 1862, when a most unusual number of these birds
appeared off our coast, occasioned by the extraordinary shoals of herring at the time. Several very beautiful
specimens were sent to a bird-stuffer in the City, from whom I purchased one, now in my collection, as
perfect an example of this species in nuptial dress as I ever saw in collections from high northern localities.
More than a dozen were shot -at this time, in the course of a week or two, off the Sherringham beach,
one of which, being held up by the legs, disgorged sixteen young herrings from its capacious throat.”

The Plate represents an adult and two newly hatched young, of the size of life. The plant is the common

Juniper (Juniperus communis, Linn.).