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Genus LXXXVI. DIVER. 



N 8 i . Northern D. 

 a. Imber D. 



3. Speckled D. 



4. Black-throated D. 



N° 5. Red-throated Do 



6. Striped D. 



7. Chinefe D. 



BILL ftrong, ftrait, pointed ; upper mandible the longeft; 

 edges of each bending inwards. 



Noftrils linear j the upper part divided by a fmall cutaneous 

 appendage. 



Tongue long, and pointed ■, ferrated on each fide near the 

 bafe. 



Legs thin and flat. 



Toes four in number, the exterior the longeft ; the back one 

 fmall, joined to the interior by a fmall membrane. 



Tail fhort i confifts of twenty feathers. 



Colymbus glacialis, Lin. Syjl. i. p. 221. 5. — Brun. N° 134.— Muller, 



N° 155. — Frifib. t. 185. A.— Faun. Groenl. N° 62. NORTHERN D, 



Le grand Plongeon cachete, Brif. Orn. vi. p. 120. 6. pi. 11. fig. 1. 

 Le Plongeon tachete, Brif. Orn. vi. p. 117. 5. (a young bird.) 

 L'Imbrim, Buf. Oif. vi. p. 258. pi. 22. — PL Enl. 952. 

 Colymbus maximus caudatus, Raii Syn. p. 125. A. 4. 

 Greater! fpeckled Diver, or Loon, Will. Orn. p. 341. — Albin, iil. pi. 93, 

 Northern Diver, Br. Zool. ii. N° 237. pi. 84. — ArB. Zool. N° 439. 

 Br. Muf. Lev. Muf. 



'"pHIS is the largeft of the Diver genus, weighing ilxteen Descitipti«n. 





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