DIVER. 



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Inhabits North America ; seen at New York in the winter, depart- 

 ing northward in the spring to breed. The circumstance of the 

 Puffin being able to make its way under water, with a rapidity not 

 easily to he imagined, has been already mentioned ; and we are 

 informed by Col. Montagu, that the same thing occurs in respect to 

 the Speckled Diver, which he had an opportunity of noticing ; and 

 proved, that by walking and running in a straight line by the side 

 of a canal, the bird proceeded by swimming on the surface, at the 

 rate of four miles and a half in an hour, and under the surface 

 between six and seven.* 



6— STRIPED DIVER. 



Colymbus striatus, Lid. Orn. ii. 802. Gm. Lin. i. 586. 

 Striped Diver, Gen. Syn. vi. 345. Arct. Zool. ii. No. 442. 



WEIGHT from two to three pounds. Bill three inches long, 

 black; head and neck light grey, striped longitudinally with narrow 

 black lines; back and scapulars plain dusky; primaries, tail, and 

 legs the same ; cheeks, and all beneath the body, dusky white. 



Inhabits the inland lakes of Hudson's Bay, about 100 miles south 

 of York Fort ; lays two eggs in June ; flies high, and during flight 

 makes a great noise, which is thought to portend rain ; is detested 

 by the natives, who think this cry to be supernatural ;f called at 

 Hudson's Bay, Mathe moqua.J 



M. Temminck, in his Manuel, considers the Speckled Diver to 

 be a bird of the first, and the Striped One of the second year, and 

 both incompletely plumaged individuals of the Red-throated Species. 

 Mr. Edmondston is disposed to consider the Black-throated and Red- 

 throated Divers as one and the same, and that the Speckled One 

 is the young of the latter: hence he would infer, that the whole 

 of the above described constitute only two Species — the Colymbus 



* Orn. Diet. Supp. f Arct. Zool. $ Mr. Hutchins. 



