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with a rich purple : the whole under fide of the 

 body is white : the fides of the bread marked with 

 black lines : the back, coverts of the wings, and fca- 

 pulars, are black, marked with white fpots : thofe 

 on the fcapulars are very large, and of a fquare 

 fliape ; two at the end of each feather. 



The tail is very fhort, and almoft concealed 

 by the coverts, which are dufky fpotted with 

 white: the legs are black. Thefe birds inhabit 

 the northern parts of this ifland, live chiefly at 

 fea, and feed on fifh : we do not know whether 

 they breed with us, as they do in Norway *, which 

 has many birds in common with Scotland. In s the 

 laft it is called Mur-buachaill, or the Her df man of 

 the fea, from its being fo much in that element. 



&$%> Imber. Colymbus immer. Lin, fyji. Ember Goofe. Sibbald Scot, 



2ZZ. 21. Wallace Orkney, 16. 



Gefner's greater Doucker. Wil. Debes Feroe Ifles, 138. Pon- 



crn. 342. Rait Jyn, a-v. tcppidan, II. 80. 



226. No. 8. Fluder. Gef- Le grand Plongeon. BriJJon, 



ner av. 140. VI. 1 05. Tab, X. 

 Immer. Brunnicb, No. 129. 



THIS fpecies inhabits the feas about the Ork- 

 nies -, but in fevere winters vifits the fouthern 

 parts of Great Britain, It lives as much at fea as the 

 former -, fo that credulity believed that it never 

 quitted the water, and that it hatched its young in 



a hole 



