Excerpt from British Birds, Vol. 16: An Illustrated Magazine Devoted Chiefly to the Birds on the British List; June, 1922-May, 1923 Red throated diver: Fig. 6. Attitude adopted when swimming on Open water hesitating to attack an intruder between herself and the nest. (photo graphed by J. S. Huxley) red - throated diver: Fig. 7. Bird no. 2 (prince Charles Foreland) walking towards her nest. Note the angle of the body and the downwardly directed head. (photographed by J. S. Huxley) red-throated diver: Fig. 8. Bird No.2 pushing her eggs back with her lower mandible before settling down to incubate. Note the open bill. (photographed by J. S. Huxley) About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.