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SPECKLED DIVER. Class II. 



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3. Speckled. Colymbusstellatus. C.clnereo- 

 fuscus lineolis albidis varius 

 subtus albus, capite et collo 

 ' superioribus cinereis, pennis 

 ad latera cinereo-albo fim- 

 briatis. Lath. Ind, orn. 800. 

 id. Syn. vi. 341. 

 Greatest speckled Diver, or 



Loon. Wil. orn. 341. 

 ■Rail Syn, av. 125. 



Golymbus eaudatus stellatus. 



N. Com. Petr. iv. 424. 

 C. stellatus. Gm. Lin. 587. 

 Le petit Plongeon. Brisson 



av. vi. 108. Tah. 10. fg. 2. 



Hist, d'ois. viii. 254. PI. 



Enl. 992, 

 Mergus stellatus, Danis Soe- 



Hane. Brunnich, 130. 

 Br. Zool. 139. K*. Arct. 



Zool. ii. 233. 



Descrip- 

 tion. 



xHIS species weighs two pounds and a half; 

 its length is twenty-seven inches ; its breadth 

 three feet nine. The bill is three inches long, 

 and turns a little upwards ; the mandibles, 

 when closed at the points, do not touch at the 

 sides. The head is of a dusky grey, marked 

 with numerous white spots ; the hind part of 

 the neck of an uniform grey ; the whole upper 

 part of the body, and greater coverts of the 

 wings dusky, speckled with white; the lesser 

 coverts dusky, and plain. The tail consists of 

 about twenty black feathers, in some tipt with 

 white. The cheeks and whole under side of the 

 body are of a fine glossy white ; and the feathers, 

 as in all this genus, which resides almost perpe- 

 tually on the water, are excessively thick, and' 

 close set ; the legs are dusky. 



