NATATORES. ' ” ! r - > COL—
T H E BLACK-THROATED D IV ER .
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Of thetbree specks of the gehusGoZywiSws, known in tM :
country, the Black-throated Diver is the most tare, occurring
but Seldom on tfe-southern shores. Young birds have been
taken in winter in Cornwall and Devonshire. In the London
market young birds are occasionally to be met with, and
during the winter of 1836,’ Mr. Bartlett purchased two, one
of which was an adult bird with a fine black throat, this
^pheimen was obtained in the- month of January; the other
was ajroung bird. Mr. S* Mummery, of Margate, has just
j§ « t anorn%t,i^that a beautiful specimen was captured on
th e . 2nd of! June-last, 1842,'dn. "Sandwich Haven, and this
a ^very-fine male bird has;beCn preserved, and deposited
in thd'museum a t' Margate. ‘ I learn from thO-Bev. Richard
Li1b%|ck^that in tbedyiai> *188$, a fine pair were killed on
ontf brOads of - Norfolk, which birds are now in the
bol-leCtion- lift Mr. -BenriCei b,ut that in Norfolk most of
th^^#n^fes*»bfiAfe^ species'-■have-been obtained in winter,
“’alM 'h?hiUs®were young birds? On'the shores of Durham and
Northumberland, Mr. Selby : considers the Black-throated
Divete^a rare winter visitant.' In 1830 a fine mature speci-
m&A was'-kp^ at the -mouth of the Tweed, and several young
birds^-bn-different parts ,of the boast/ and upon the river
“f c n c p Mb“ '^efey having had an opportunity of examining
^bfebird from which Thomas Bewick 'efigraved the figure of
'bis.lleiS«hmbeF,-has no doubt that i t ’is the young of the
year of th i|^ ^M ^ ^ P
In'its-habits the Black-throated Diver closely resembles
4ke 5 mid- we learn also from
Mr. Selby^bm/e'^of 4 h ^ localities in Scotland in which this
.klpcild has Ifeteem found during summer. This gentleman
!%%kferV'es/« “ that it- diWS'vwith the same ease and as perse-
iylSinfJy as the-other, species, and can remainlong submerged,
•making^^Eybgifeat progress during its submarine flight, as
' frexperienl'id’ by Sir William Jardine and myself, when
iiKfefge of this bird in a- light and handy boat upon Loch