520 RED AND BLACK THROATED DIVER. 



443. Red- Br. Zool. ii. N° 240 — Le Lumme, ou petit Plongeon de Mer de Nord, De 



THROATED, £,,J„„^ viii. 26 I .—PI. Enl. 308. 



Colymbus Septentrionalis, Lin, Syjl, 220. — Latham, iii. —Lev. Mus. 



With head and chin of an'uniform grey : throat, and lower 

 fide of the neck, of a dull red : upper part grey, ftreaked 

 with black: upper part of body, wings, and tail, dufliy ; back and 

 coverts of wings fpotted with white : breaft and belly white : legs 

 dufky. Weight three pounds. Extent three feet five. L-ength, ' 

 to the tip of the tail, two feet. 

 Placb, Found in the north oi Europe and Iceland, along the northern coaft of 



Rtijfia, Sibiria, and Kamtfchatka ; but does not haunt the inland lakes. 

 Inhabi-ts the rivers of Hudfon's Bay during fummer. Prey much on 

 the fifli entangled in the nets j but are often caught themfelves in 

 their rapid purfuit of the fifh. Mr. Huichins took fourteen out of a 

 fingle net in one tide. Numbers of every fpecies of Diver are fre- 

 quently taken in this manner about Hudfon's Bay. 



444. Black- Br. Zool. il. N° 241. — Colymbus Arflicus, Lomm. Faun, Suec. N" 150. 



THROATED. hsl,\imme, kc. De Buffon, \m. 261. -^Latham, in, — Lev. Mus. 



T^^ With bill, forehead, and cheeks, black : hind part of the neck 

 cinereous : fides of the neck ftreaked downwards with black ; 

 fore part varying with black, purple, and green : back and coverts 

 of wings dufky ; the firft marked with fquare, the laft with round 

 white fpots : breaft and belly white : tail black : legs partly red, 

 partly dufky. 

 Placb. This, and the preceding, inhabit Hudfon's Bay *, the north of 



Eur of e, and Fceland. Few in Rujfia : but frequent in the inland 

 lakes of Sibiria, efpecially thofe of the ArSlic regions ; but in the 

 wandering feafon fpread over all latitudes. 



• Edwards, 147. 



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