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mandible dufky : the head is dufky, dotted with grey: hind 

 part of the neck plain dufky : the fides under the eye, the chin, 

 and throat, white : fore part of the neck very pale afh-colour : 

 back dufky, marked with oval fpots of white : fides of the breaft 

 and body the fame, but fmaller : the fpots on the rump and tail 

 minute : breaft and under parts white : quills dufky : legs 

 brown : webs and claws pale. 



Place and This bird is pretty frequent in England ; fufficiently fo on the 



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rtver Thames, where it is called by the hlhermen Sprat Loon, be- 

 ing often feen in vail numbers among the fhoals of that^/&, diving 

 after them, and frequently approaching very near the boats while 

 fifhing. It is common about the Baltic and the White Sea, but 

 not obferved in other parts of RnJJia, yet is a native of Kami- 

 fchatka. It lays two eggs, in the grafs, on the borders of lakes 

 not far from the fea ; they are exactly oval, the fize of thofe of a 

 Gooje, dufky, marked with a few black fpots *. 



Thefe are alfo frequent about the fijh-ponds in France, except 

 they are frozen, when they betake themfeives to the rivers* 



This and the two laft vifit New Tork in winter, but return 

 very far north to breed. 



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