ORDER PALMIPEDES. 553 



Red-throated Diver, Lath. Col. Septentrionalis, Enl. 

 308. Edw. 97. Naum. 67, f. 94. Vieill. Gal. 

 282, and Col. Stellatus, Gm. Buff. viij. 21. Enl. 

 992. Naum. Sup. 31, f. 62. 



The adult male is brown above, white underneath, 

 the face, and sides of the neck, ash ; the fore part of 

 neck, red. The female and the young are brown, 

 dotted with white, above, and entirely white beneath. 

 The Striped Diver, C. Striatus, Gm. appears to be 

 only a variety of the young. 



The Guillemots. Uria.* Briss. and II. 



Have, with the general form of bill of the preceding, 

 feathers, even to the nostrils, and an emargination 

 at the point, which is slightly arched. But their 

 principal distinction is the want of a thumb. Theu' 

 wings, still shorter than those of the divers, scarcely 

 enable them to flutter. They live on fish and crabs, 

 dwell in the ledges of rocks, and build there. 



*&' 



Foolish Guillemot. Columbus Troile, L. Enl. 903. 

 Brit. Zool. pi. 2. Edw. 359, 1. Frisch. 185. 



Is the size of a duck ; the head and neck are brown ; 

 the back and quills, blackish ; the belly white, with 

 a white line on the wing, formed by the end of the 

 secondary quills. They inhabit the highest northern 



* The Greek or rather Latin name of an aquatic bird, which appears to 

 have been a diver or a grebe. 



