Fauna Orcadensis Or the Natural History of the Quadrupeds Birds Reptiles And
Fauna Orcadensis Or the Natural History of the Quadrupeds Birds Reptiles And
George Low
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20. Tab. 15. C. Glacialis, Lin. Sys. 221. Brit, Zool. 413. THE Great Northern Diver is very frequent round all the Orkneys, but especially in the bays and harbours, which it enters in pursuit of small fish, its only sustenance. The na- tural history of this and the following species is something pa- radoxical. Though they continue among these islands the whole season, 1 can find none to inform me how or where they breed. It is certain the formation of their legs, and the manner of placing them,... does not allow them to walk, nor will teas- ing make them fly, as I have often seen ; indeed, their wings seem too small for this purpose. How then do they propagate and hatch ? To solve this many improbable schemes have been advanced ; some * telling us " they have their nests and * The elder Wallace, Hist. Oik. 16. Ed. 1693, and from him transmitted to Sir Robert Sibbald. The Great Diver. '] OF ORKNEY. 109 " hatch their eggs under the water;" others, that they do this in a natural hollow under their wings, and that they have but a single egg.
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