GREAT NORTHERN DIVER.
Y TROCHYDD MAWR, OF THE ANCIENT BRITISH.
NORTHERN DIVER. IMBER. GREAT DOUG'KER. RING-NECKED DIVER.
Coh'm/ius glaa'atfs, PENNANT. MONTAGU. BEWICK.
" " FLEMING. SET.BY. JENYN.S. COULD.
" immer, PENNANT. MONTAGU.
Colvmbus—A Diver. Gfacmh's—Of or belonging to ice.
T H I S Great Diver is in E u r o p e found in Iceland, S p i t s b e r g e n , the
Faroe Islands, Russia, Norway, Sweden, Denmark, Lapland, Finland,
H o l l a n d , Switzerland, Germany, and F r a n c e , but in the latter only
r a r e l y in comparison with the former, and in I t a l y a single specimen
is the only one that has occurred.
I n America in L a b r a d o r , Greenland, the F u r Countries, and thence
on to the U n i t e d States.
I n Cornwall one was taken in May, 1828, near P o l p e r r o , and two
remained near Looe the whole of that summer. They are not uncommon
on that coast in winter. Two were seen off East Looe on the 25th.
of October, 1852, and one, no doubt of the same pair, a female, was
shot on the 8th. of November. In the following year, in the month
of December, they were u n u s u a l l y abundant in that locality, ten or a
dozen being not u n f r e q u e n t l y seen at a time, and in one instance
upwards of t h i r t y . Several were seen in P l y m o u t h Sound in December,
1850, and two of them were shot. One, a male, was obtained in
C a r r i c k Roads, Falmouth, in March, 1845, and another in J a n u a r y,
1846; one in Gwyllynvase Bay, in December, 1847; and on the 28th.
of December, 1848, two others were seen there. One has visited the
bay every year for several years in May. Near Penzance in like
manner they have occurred—one in October, 1844; two in October,