Identifier: handbookguidetob00live (find matches)
Title: Handbook and guide to the British birds on exhibition in the Lord Derby Natural History Museum, Liverpool
Year: 1914 (1910s)
Authors: Liverpool Museum (Liverpool, England)
Subjects: Liverpool Museum (Liverpool, England) Birds
Publisher: Liverpool, C. Tinling
Contributing Library: Smithsonian Libraries
Digitizing Sponsor: Smithsonian Libraries

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a season. Case 216. RED-THROATED DIVER (Colymhus septentrionalis). Adult birds of this species with the white throat characteristic ofthe winter plumage, are commonly met with in the winter on all ourcoasts. The only places in which it is known to breed in the BritishIslands are the north of Ireland and in parts of Scotland. The femaleis rather smaller than the male, but in plumage is almost similar.This species prefers small lochs and pools for nesting, and is seldomseen on the larger lochs except in search of fish on which it mainlyfeeds. The large olive-brown eggs, spotted with dark brown (seeBritish Bird Egg Cabinet, drawer 24) are laid on the bare and oftenwet ground, close to the waters edge. The male shares the duties ofincubation. Case 217. BLACK-THROATED DIVER (Colymhus arcticus). An annual winter visitor in small numbers to this district, buttolerably common during the breeding season about the larger lochs ofthe north and west of Scotland. In winter the plumage is entirely
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43 different from that of spring, for after the autumn moult, the upperparts become ashy-brown and the under parts white. The flight isvery strong and rapid, and the movements both on and below thesurface of the water are active and varied, though slow and awkwardon land. Fish, which mainly form its food, are captured by diving,and subsequently brought to the surface and swallowed. The nest,generally situated close to the waters edge, consists of merely a hollowin the ground, with little or no lining, either on some grass grownisland, or on the mainland. Two olive-brown eggs, spotted with black(see British Bird Egg Cabinet, drawer 24) are laid in May. Case 2 18. TURTLE DOVE (Turtur communis). A summer visitor generally arriving about the beginning of May anddeparting in September. Its numbers seem to be yearly increasing andit is now found in many localities in which it was formerly entirelyabsent. Although a few years ago it was hardly known in Cheshire, itis now a common summer visi

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