Class II. NORTHERN DIVER. 



5*3 



PILL ftrong, ftrair, pointed. Upper mandible 



longed ; edges of each bending in. 

 NOSTRILS linear. 



TONGUE pointed, long, ferrated near the bafe. 

 LEGS thin and flat. 

 TOES, exterior the longeft : back toe joined to 



the interior by a fmall membrane. 

 TAIL fhort, confiding of twenty feathers. 



XLII. 

 DIVER. 



Clufius's. Wil. orn. 342. 

 Raii fyn. a<v. J25. 

 Mergus maximus Farrenfis, 

 five Ardlicus. Clufii exot, 



102. 

 Colymbus maximus ftellatus 



noftras. Sib. hifi. Scot. 20. 



Tab. 15. 

 Le grand Plongeon tachete. 



griffon av. VI. 120. Tab. 237. North- 



11. fig. 1. ERN * 



Colymbus glacialis. Lin.fyfi. 



221. 

 Norvegis Brufen. Groenlan- 



dis Tiulik. Brunnich, orn. 



134. 

 Groffe Haib-Ente, Meer- 



Ncering. Frifch, II. 185. A. 

 Br. Zool. 139. 



THE length of this fpecies is three feet five Desci 

 inches: its breadth four feet eight: the bill 

 to the corners of the mouth four inches long; 

 black and ftrongly made. The head and neck 

 are of a deep black : the hind part of the latter is 

 marked with a large femilunar white band: imme- 

 diately under the throat is another •, both marked 

 with black oblong ftrokes pointing down: the low- 

 er part of the neck is of a deep black, glofTed 



with 



