52 6 RED THROATED DIVER. Class II. 



white. The cheeks and whole under fide of the 

 body of a fine gloffy white : and the feathers, as 

 in all this genus, which refides almoft perpetually 

 on the water, are excefilvely thick, and clofe fet : 

 the legs are dufky. 



Thefe birds frequent our feas, lakes and rivers 

 in the winter. On the Thames they are called fprat 

 loons ) for they attend that fifh during its continu- 

 ance in the river. They are fubjecl: to vary in the 

 difpofition and form of their fpots and colors : 

 fome having their necks furrounded with a fpeckled 

 ring : in fome the fpots are round, in others oblong. 



240. Red 'Edw. ofv- 97. Briffbn wu. VI. III. Tab. II. 



throated. Gunner. Tab. 2. f. 2.^ fig. 1. 



Colymbus feptentrionalis . IJlandis & Norvegis Loom v. 



Lin. fyfc. 220. Lumme , Danis Lomm „ 



Le Plongecn a gorge rouge. Brunnich, 132. 



Br. Z00L 140. 



THIS fpecies breeds in the northern parts of 

 Scotland, on the borders of the lakes : but 

 migrates fouthward during winter. It lays two 

 torn* The fexes do not differ in colors ; and are 

 a diftincl kind from the black throated, the Lumme 

 of the Norwegians. Its fhape is more elegant than 

 that of the others. The weight is three pounds : 

 Descrip. the length, to the tail end, two feet; to that of 

 the toes, two feet four inches ; the breadth three 



feet 



