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SPECKLED DIVER. Cuass IT. 
$3. SPECKLED. Colymbusstellatus. C. cinereo- Colymbus caudatus stellatus. 
Descripe 
TION. 
fuscus lineolis albidis varius N. Com. Petr. iv. 424. 
subtus albus, capite et collo C. stellatus. Gm. Lin. 587. 
superioribus cinereis, pennis Le petit Plongeon. Brisson 
ad latera cinereo-albo fim- av. vi. 108. Tab. 10. fig. 2. 
briatis. Lath. Ind. orn. 800. Fist. dois. vill. 254. Pl. 
id. Syn. vi. 341. Enl. 992. 
Greatest speckled Diver, or Méergus stellatus, Danis Soe-— 
Loon. Wil. orn. 341. Hane. Brunnich, 130. 
Rai Syn. av, 125. Br. Zool. 139. K*. Arct. 
Zool. il. 233. 
Tuts 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. 
