Class IL IMBER DIVER. I67 



Colymbus Immer. C. corpore Immer. Brunnich, No. I29. 2. Imber. 



supra nigricante albo undu- Ember Goose. Sihhald Scot. 



lato subtus toto albo. Lath, 21. Wallace Orkney, 16. 



Ind. orn. 800. id. Syn. vi. Deles Feroe Isles, 138. 



340. Pontoppidan, ii. 80. 



Colymbus immer. Gm. Lin, LegrandPlongeon. Brmow at'. 



588. vi. 105. Tah.x. Hist, d'ois. 



Gesrae/s greater Doucker. IFiL viii. 251. PI. Enl. 914. 



orn. 342. Raii Syn. av. Arct. Zool. ii. 232. 



126. No. 8. Fluder. Gesner 



av. 140. 



This species inhabits the seas about the Ori- ,. 

 nies, but in severe winters visits the southern • ' 

 parts of Gi^eat Brita'm. It lives as much at 

 sea as the former, so that credulity believed 

 that it never quitted the water, and that it 

 hatched its young in a hole formed by nature 

 under the wing for that end. 



It is superior in size to a goose. The head Descrip- 

 is dusky; the back, coverts of the wings, and 

 tail clouded with lighter and darker shades of 

 the same; the primaries and tail are black; 

 the under side of the neck spotted with dusky ; 

 the breast and belly silvery ; the legs black. 



The skins of the birds of this genus are un- 

 commonly tough, and in the northern countries 

 have been used as leather. 



