344 ©ITER. 



5- 'Cotymbus feptentrlonalis, Liu. Sjji. i. p. 220. 3. — Bruit. N° 132. — Mailer, 



-s-RED- m. ... 



THROATED D. 1N * 53; 



Colymbus arcticus collo rufo, Att. Nit/r. i. p. 244. t. 2. fig. 2. 



Le Plongeon a gorge rouge, Brif. Orn. vi. p. ill. 3. pi, n. £g. 1,— 



PI. Enl. 308. 



Red-throated Loon, Edvu. pi. 97. 



- 1 Diver, i?r. ZW. N° 240. pi. 85. 1. — Ar<3. Zool. N° 443. 



Br. Muf. Lei/. Muf. 



Description. 'IP H I S weighs three pounds; and is two feet five inches in 

 length. The bill three inches long, black, and flender : 

 the head and chin are cinereous, dotted with brown : the reft of 

 the head, fides of the neck, and throat, afh-colour : the hind 

 part of the neck longitudinally ftreaked with dufky and white : 

 the throat, and part of the neck, of a fine chefnut red : from 

 thence the under parts are white : the upper parts of the body, 

 wings, and tail, are dufky ; the two firft marked with a few 

 white fpots : the tail plain : thighs ftreaked dufky and white :- 

 legs duiky, with a reddifh tinge on fome parts. 

 Place and The red-throated Diver, like the black-throated one, is feldom 



met with fouthward, except in fevere winters. It breeds in the 

 northern parts of Scotland, on the borders of the lakes. Found in 

 Ruffia, Sibiria, and Kamtfchatka ; but does not haunt the inland 

 lakes *. Common in Iceland and Greenland ; breeds in the laft 

 in June, and lays two afli-coloured eggs, marked with a few 

 black fpots ; they are in fhape longer, and more flender than thofe 

 of the Hen ; making a neft in the grafs on the fhores of the firft, 

 compofed of mofs and grafs, and placed contiguous to the water. 

 It fwims and dives well, and flies admirably, and while flying is 

 very noify. Oftener frequent frefh waters than thofe of the fea. 



» ArS. Zool. 



Feeds 



