DIVER. * 343 



Golvmbus ar&icus, Lin. Syjl. i. p. 221, 4. — Faun. Suec. N° 150. — Brun. 4. 



Orn. N° \%\.—Muller, N° 154.— Rati Syn. p. 12c. T.—Acl. Nidr. i. BLACK- 



" THROATED D. 



p. 140.- 1. 2. fig. 1. 



Le Plongeon a gorge noire, Brif. Orn. vi. p. 115. 4. 



Le Lumme, ou petit Plongeon de la Mer du Nord, Buf. Oif. viii. p. 26 u 



Wormius's Northern Doucker, Will. Orn. p. 343. pi. 62. 



Speckled Loon, Ediv. pi. 146. 



Black-throated Diver,5r. ZW. ii. N° 241. pi. 85. fig. 2.— Aril. Zool. N° 444. 



Lev. Muf. 



r T< HIS meafures two feet in length. Bill near two inches Descb*ption. 



long, flender, and black : the fore part of the head and 

 throat black: hind part of the head and neck afh-colour; fides 

 of the laft white, fpotted with black : on the fore part of the neck 

 a large patch of black, five inches in length, changing to purple 

 and green in different lights: the back and upper parts black: 

 fcapulars marked with fquare fpots of white : wing coverts the 

 fame,, but the fpots are round : breaft and belly white : quills 

 dufky : tail fhort and black: legs black, with a. can: of red on 

 the infide. 



This bird is now and then found in England, but is not com- Place and 

 mon. Is fufficiently plenty in the northern parts of Europe, Manners* 



Norway, Sweden, and Denmark. Frequent in the inland lakes of 

 Sibiria ■, efpecially thofe of the Arblic regions : alfo in Iceland, 

 Greenland, and- the Ferroe IJles : like wife in America at Hudfon's 

 Bay*. Suppofed to cry and be very reftlefs againfl rain, making 

 a great noifef; hence the Norwegians think it impious to d«- 

 ftroy this fpecies J ; but the Swedes, lefs fuperftitious, drefs their 

 fkins, which, like all of this genus, are exceeding tough, and ufe 

 them for gun-cafes, and facings for winter caps ||. 



* Edwards. t dmcen. Acad. iv. p. 587. %. Aril. Zool. \\- Faun. Suec, 



Coliynbus 



