LOON, OR GREAT NORTHERN DIVER. 



(Colymhus glacialis, Linn. Wilson, ix. pi. 74. fig. 3. [adult]. Bonap. 

 Synops. No. 368. Rich, arid Swains. North. Zool. ii. p. 474. 

 Temm. Man. d'Orn. ii. p. 910. Northern Diver, Penn. Arct. 

 Zool. ii. No. 439. [adult] and Imber, No. 440. [young.] L'Imbrin, 

 ou Grand Plongeon, Buff. Ois. viii. p. 258. t. 22. Id. Pi. Enlum. 

 952. [a good figure of the adult.] Penn. Brit Zool. p. 139. t. K. 

 2. Phil. Museum, No. 3262. [male and young] and 3263. 

 [female].) 



Sp. Charact. — Bill about 4^ inches long from the rictus; upper 

 mandible straight; the lower wider in the middle, grooved beneath, 

 and recurved : tail of 20 feathers. — Adult black, speckled with 

 white ; beneath white ; head and neck glossy black ; with a white 

 interrupted collar and gular band. Young wholly brownish ; be- 

 neath white. 



The Loon, the most common of its tribe in the United 

 States, is a general inhabitant of cold and temperate 

 climates, throughout the whole northern hemisphere. It is 

 found in the north of Europe, and spreads along the Arctic 

 coasts as far as Kamtschatka, Nootka Sound, and the 

 mouth of the Ob. It dwells on the dreary coast of Spitz- 



