Help!!...I'm doing a crossword and.....?

I'm stuck on two answers.
Diving bird....first two letters are mu... total letters 5
french novelist..... Need the forst letter as the rest of the name is umas.
Would greatly appreciate any help.
Thanks to all!

Henry I2009-05-27T08:01:23Z

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The bird is the murre.

Dumas is correct for the author.

Don't read much, do ya? :)

Best wishes!

Anonymous2009-05-27T12:43:20Z

the french novelist maybe Dumas??

You sure that the Mu is right for the diving bird? the only 5 letter diving bird i could find was Grebe

Anonymous2009-05-27T13:37:51Z

Diving bird-Mures or Murrs not sure how it is spelled.
And it's most likely Dumas