From the sulfur-and selenium-concentration profiles recorded by an electron microprobe the chalcogen interdiffusion coefficient of the system Pb(S, Se) is determined as a function of mass fraction cPbse and temperature. Undoped crystals and Pb-or chalcogen-saturated crystals are studied. The dependence of the interdiffusion coefficient on the deviation from stoichiometry shows that in the chalcogen-saturated part of the system the calcogen interdiffusion proceeds via chalcogen interstitials, whereas in the Pb-saturated part of the system the chalcogens diffuse via chalcogen vacancies. For pure PbSe it is shown that these vacancies are doubly ionized. The activation entropy of the diffusion of the chalcogens depends linearly on the ratio of activation enthalpy to solidus temperature.