SPECKLED AND STRIPED DIVER. , 519 



Br, Zool. ii. N" 239. — Le peiit Plongeon, Dt Buffon, vlii. 254. — ?l. Enl. 992. 441, Speckled. 



Colymbus Stellatus, Soehane, Brunnich, N" 130. — Latham, iii. —Lev, Mus. 



— Bl. Mus. 



■p^ With the bill turning a little upwards: head dark grey, fpot- 

 ted with white : hind part of the neck of an uniform grey : 

 back, coverts of wings, primaries, and tail, duflcy ; the two firft 

 fpotted with white : from chin to tail a fine filvery white. "Weight 

 two pounds and a half. Length two feet three. Extent three 

 feet nine. ' 



Thefe three fpecles vifit New York in the winter, and return Place. 



very farnorth to breed. This is common about the Baltic and White 

 Sea ; but not obferved in other parts of Ruffia ; yet is a native of 

 Kamtjchatka* . It lays two eggs in the grafs, on the borders of the 

 lakes, not far from the fea. The eggs are exaftly oval, of tlie fire 

 of thofe of a Goofe, duflcy, marked with a few black fpots. 



With a ftrong black bill, threb inches long : head and neck 442. Striped, 

 light grey, ftriped regularly downwards with long nar- 

 row black lines : back and fcapulars dufky and plain : primaries, 

 tail, and legs, dufliy : cheeks, and whole under fide of the body, 

 of a gloffy white. Weight between two.and, three pounds.. 



Inhabits the inland lakes of Hudfon's Bay, about a hundred miles. Place. 

 fouthward o^ Tork Fort. Lays, in June, two eggs. Flies high, and. 

 paffes backwards and forwards, making a great noife j which is faid 

 to portend rain. Detefbed by the natives, who look on this note as, 

 iijpernatural. — Mr. Hiitchins,. , - 



* Steller, in Nov. Com. Petrep. iv. 424., 



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