90 DIVER. 



It is found also in America. Mr. Edwards received it from 

 Hudson's Bay, where it is called Moqua. The egg", according to 

 Klein, is white, marked with four or five dusky specks. Mr. 

 Ekmarck* observes, that it is every where known in the northern 

 Lakes of Sweden ; leaving them in autumn for the neighbouring 

 Provinces of Germany, but scarcely going farther. 



4— RED-THROATED DIVER. 



Colytnbiis septentrionalis, Ind. Orn. ii. 801. Lin. i. 220. Borowsk. iii. p. 58. 3. 



Fn. groenl. No. 61. Lin. Trans, xii. p. 542. Frankl. Narr. App. p. 703. 

 Colyrobus Lumme, Brua. p. 39. No. 132. Muller, No. 153. 



arcticus collo rufo, Act. Nidr. i. 244. t. 2. f. 2. 



Mergus gutture rubro, Bris. v\. 111. t. 11. f. 1. 7rf.8vo.ii. 390. Klein, 142.3. 



Tern. Man. 603. Id. Ed. 2d. p. 917. Parr. App. p. ccix. 

 Rothhakiger Taucher, Sch. d. Berl. Nat. vii. 459. Besek. Kurl. 53. No. 53. No. 100. 



Beckst. Deuts. iv. 609. 

 Plongeon a gorge rouge, Buf. viii. 264. PL enl. 308. 

 Red-throated Diver, Gen. Syn. v. 344. Br. Zool. ii. No. 24ft. pi. 85. 1. Id/of. 140. 



Id. Ed. 1812. ii. 169. pi. 30. f. 1. Arct. Zool. ii. No. 443. Edw. pi. 97. Beta-. 



ii. pb p. 193. Lewin, vi, pi. 230. Wale. i. pi. 100. Dun. pi. 7S. Pull. Dors. 



p. 17. Orn. Diet, fy Supp. 



LENGTH two feet five inches; weight three pounds. Bill three 

 inches long, black, and slender; the head and chin cinereous, dotted 

 with brown ; the rest of the head, sides of the neck, and throat ash- 

 eolour; hind part of the neck longitudinally streaked with dusky 

 and white; the throat and part of the neck fine chestnut red; from 

 thence the under parts are white ; upper parts of the body, wings, 

 and tail dusky, the two first marked with a few white spots; the tail 

 plain ; thighs streaked dusky and white ; legs dusky, tinged with red 

 in some lights. 



This, like the former, is not met with southward, except in severe 

 winters ; breeds in the northern parts of Scotland, on the borders of 



* Ammn. ac. 



