94 DIVER. 



Glacialis, and Septentrionalis :* be it so or not, we have thought right 

 to detail the descriptions of authors, to point out to the reader the 

 variety of dresses in which these birds appear in their progress to 

 perfection. 



7.— NEWCASTLE DIVER. 



Second Speckled Diver, Bewick, ii. pi. p. 191. 



THE length of this bird is two feet four inches; weight full 

 three pounds ;f extent of wing three feet four inches. The bill to 

 the gape more than three inches, colour purplish white; irides 

 brown; head and neck behind, hoary, dark ash-colour; but on a 

 nearer view the feathers of the crown and brow are dark in the 

 middle, edged with light grey ; from the nape larger, and the grey 

 edges less defined ; cheeks and throat white, freckled with numerous, 

 brownish, ash-coloured spots, but on the fore part of the neck inclin- 

 ing more to brown ; upper parts of the body black brown; greater 

 coverts and quills marked with oblong, oval, white spots ; under 

 parts of the body white ; tail brown. — A pair of these were shot on 

 the Tyne, at Newcastle, in January. 



8— BOREAL DIVER. 



Colymbus borealis, lnd.Orn.W. 801. Brun. No. 131. 



THE general colour of this bird is dusky above, marked with 

 numerous white spots; the under parts white; fore part of the neck 

 sparingly marked with rufous. 



This was killed near Copenhagen, but is probably not a distinct 

 species; and is most likely, as well as the last described, belonging 

 to the Red-throated Species. 



* Wern. Trans, V. iv. pt. 1. p. 212. f One of them weighed only two 



pounds and a half. 



