ClafsII. SCOTER. 457 



VIII. The SCOTER: 



Black Diver, or Scoter. Wih orn. La Macreufe. BHJfon a<v. vi. 420, 



3 66. tab. 3$.fg. 2. 



Raii/yn. a<v. 141. Anas nigra. Lin.fyjl. 196. 



La Macreufe, Ray's Letters 1 6 1. Faun. Suec. fp. no. 



Dale's biji. Harwich. 405. Br. Zoo/. 153. 



THIS fpecies weighs two pounds nine ounces : D e r er# 

 the length is twenty-two inches j the breadth 

 thirty-four: the middle of the bill is of a fine yellow, 

 the reft is black : both male and female want the 

 hook at the end; but on the bafe of the bill of the 

 former is a large knob, divided by a fifTure in the 

 middle. The tail confifts of fixteen fharp pointed 

 feathers, of which the middle are the longed. The 

 color of the whole plumage is black, that of the head 

 and neck gloried over with purple: the legs are black. 

 This bird is allowed in the Romijh church to be eaten 

 in Lent, and is the macreufe of the French. It is a 

 great diver, faid to live almoft conltantly at fea, and 

 U> be taken in nets placed under water. 



IX. The 



