DIVER. 87 



2.- IMBER DIVER. 



Colymbus Immer, Ind. Orn. ii. 800. Lin. i. 222. Gm. Lin.i. 588. Brun. No. 129. 



Muller, p. 29. Borowsk. iii. p. 60. Act. Nidr. i. 246. En. Helvet. Tern. Man. 



598. Id. Ed. 2d, 912. W^rw. Trans, ii. pt. 1. p. 232. 

 Mergus major, Bris. vi. 105. 1. 10. f. 1. Id. 8vo. ii. 389. Schcrf. EL t. 48. Gerin.v. 



t. 505. 506. 

 Colymbus maximus Gesneri, Rail, 126. WW. 260. § III. Klein, 150. 6. 

 Dei- Imber, Bechst. Dents, ii. 780. young. Id. Ed. 2d. iv. p. 621 ? 

 Le grand Plongeon, Bnf viii. 251. 



Ember Goose, Sibb. Scot. 21. Wall. Ork. 16. Debes Ferr. 13S. Pontop. Norw. ii. 80. 

 Imber Diver, Gen. Syn. vi. p. 340. Br. Zoo/, ii. No. 238. pi. 84. /J. 1812. ii. p. 167. 



pi. 29. f. 1. Will. Engl. p. 342. ^frcf. Zoo/, ii. 440. Bewick, ii. p. 185. .Leio/n, 



vi. pi. 227. HWc. pi. 99. Don. pi. 99. P«/f. Dors. p. 17. Or«. Die/. Sf Supp. 



THIS is generally less than the last, but varies exceedingly in 

 size; the length mostly above two feet, but in some instances much 

 beyond it. Irides brown ; the bill is four inches and a half long, at 

 least, and dusky brown ; forehead and sides of the head and neck 

 speckled with brown ; the back and wings black brown, the feathers 

 margined with paler brown : on the middle of the neck the brown 

 comes very forward, and almost surrounds it ; about this spotted 

 black and white ; except these markings, all beneath, from chin to 

 vent, white, but mottled on the latter with brown, and between the 

 thighs a band of black; quills and tail brown, feathers of the last 

 edged with white; legs dusky. The female chiefly differs in being 

 merely brown on the upper parts. 



The Imber, by some called Cobble, as far as respects this 

 kingdom, is scarce, only met with in severe seasons, and rarely in 

 the southern parts; only one instance has occurred to me of its being 

 shot on the Coasts of Kent ; and I learn from Dr. Lamb that it was 

 killed near Newbury, in January, 1795, on a piece of water, but 

 was shot with great difficulty, as it dived so continually, as to pre- 

 clude all true aim being taken. Is rarely seen to fly, but it certainly 

 does so occasionally, though not to any distance. 



