112 ; NATURAL HISTORY - \Blrds. 



fish fry which set in there, amongst which it makes great ha- 

 vock. 



Those birds differ much in their spots, some being more 

 and some less spotted, hkewise in the placing of these ; in ge- 

 neral the head is gray, spotted with white, the whole upper 

 part of the body spotted with the same ; the tail black, spot- 

 ted with white ; the whole under side white, as all the divers 

 are, to a bird, which have come to my knowledge; all have 

 white bellies, except some of the gulls and ducks, but these 

 can scarce be called divers : the first seldom dive, and the 

 ducks are so differently formed, that it is impossible to rank 

 them with these. 



Species 4. — The 'Red-throated Diver. 



Nortbeni Douker, I'Vil. Orn. 343. Raii Syn. Av. 125. Colymbus septentrio- 

 nalis, C. arcticus, Lm. Sys. 220,221. Brit. Zool. 415, Brit. Zool. lUus. 

 tab. Ql.Jig. 1, 2. Ore. Rain-goose. 



The Rain-goose, as it is here called, continues with us the 

 whole season ; builds on the very edge of a lake in the hills of 

 Hoy ; lays two eggs; its nest placed so as it can slip from it 

 into the water, as it can neither stand nor walk at land, but 

 can make very quick way in the water; flies well, and com- 

 monly very high ; makes a vast howling, and sometimes croak- 

 ing noise, which our country folks say prognosticates rain, 

 whence its name, with the addition of goose ; and here it is 



