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voice that no sensitive person could hear them without 

 surprise and emotion : — 



Mfe^ 



Wilson thought the European divers to be of a different 

 species from the American divers, they differed so much 

 in size. He cites a European specimen that weighed 

 sixteen pounds against the usual weight of our divers, 

 which he puts at eight and a half pounds. The point of 

 size would not seem to be well taken, for I have seen in 

 the collection of Mr. Vickary, the taxidermist of Lynn, 

 the body of one of our divers which weighed twelve 

 pounds ; and Mr. Vickary informs me that one was once 

 sent to him which weighed seventeen pounds. 



The loon is a born aristocrat. He is no trifler ; every- 

 thing he does bears an intellectual stamp. A solitary, 

 mating only with the elements, he is master of winds 

 and waves, sitting the waters with sovereign grace and 

 dignity, equally unconcerned in calm and tempest. Sur- 

 prised by danger, he dives fearlessly and swims the 

 depths with incredible swiftness and for an astonishing 

 length of time, finally emerging far away. Then, if the 

 attractions of his other element inspire him, he rises and 

 flies rapidly through the upper air, shouting over and over 

 his characteristic five tones: — 



00, 00, 00, 00, 00, 00, 00, 00, 00, 00, 00, 00, 



s( |ii g C . g g -g— I? C 1 g— ^l?--t~e= ^ 



00, 00, 00, 00, 00, 00, 00, 00, 00, 00, 00, 00, 00. 



