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Identifier: cassellsbookofbi04breh (find matches)
Title: Cassell's book of birds
Year: 1875 (1870s)
Authors: Brehm, Alfred Edmund, 1829-1884 Jones, Thomas Rymer, 1810-1880
Subjects: Birds
Publisher: London (etc.), Cassell, Petter and Galpin
Contributing Library: Harvard University, Museum of Comparative Zoology, Ernst Mayr Library
Digitizing Sponsor: Harvard University, Museum of Comparative Zoology, Ernst Mayr Library

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kely to rise after diving. Submersion frequently continuedfor nearly two minutes at a time, and they generally reappeared at about a quarter of a milesdistance from the spot where they had gone down. In no instance have I ever seen them attemptto escape by taking wing. I may observe that a visible track from the water to the eggs was left bythe female, whose progress upon land is effected by shuffling along upon her belly, propelled by herlegs behind. On the day following (May 31st) Mr. J. Wilson was fortunate enough to find twonewly-hatched young ones in a small creek of Loch Craigie, about two miles and a half from Lairg.After handling and examining them, during which the old birds approached very near to him, he leftthem in the same spot. Accordingly, on the Monday morning we had the boat conveyed tothe loch, and on our arrival soon descried the two old birds, attended by their young andapparently moving to a different part of the loch. Contrary to their usual habit at other times,
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JJS TY, THE DIVERS. 249 they did net attempt to dive on our approach, but kept swimming around their young, which, fromtheir very tender age, were unable to make much way in the water. The female could only bedistinguished from the male by a slight inferiority of size, and both were in full adult plumage. Weafterwards saw several pairs upon various lochs, and upon Loch Kay, a pair attended by two youngones nearly half grown. When swimming they are in the constant habit of dipping their bill into thewater, with a graceful motion of the head and beak. Mr. Dunn, who observed these birds in Norway, tells us that, The eggs have a very rank fishytaste, but are much sought after by the Lapps. After the young are hatched, both male and femaleare very assiduous in bringing them food, and may be seen flying at a vast height, with fish in theirbeaks, from one lake to another; on arriving over the lake where they intend to alight, they descendvery suddenly in an oblique direction. The cries of th

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