The Crefied Diver, Colymbus criftatus. ^Z^- 



Numb. LXXXI. 



TS Length from the Tip of the Bill to the end of the 

 Claws is twenty four Inches ; Breadth thirty three In- 

 ches ; Weight two Pound ^\q Ounces and a half. 



The Bill is two Inches and a quarter long, both Man- 

 dibles where it joins to the Head tinctured with a redifh 

 Colour ; theCreft black, beneath redifli brown, ending in a 

 faint cinereous white towards the Eyes ; the upper Part of 

 the Neck is adorned with a Ruff or Collar of Feathers Teem- 

 ing much bigger than what it is, ending in black; the back 

 Part of the Neck, Back and Wings are of a dark brown in- 

 clining to black, excepting fome of the exterior Edges of 

 the quill Feathers which are white. 



The Breaft and Belly are of a whitilli alh Colour, and the 

 lower part brown; it hath no Tail at all; the Legs broad 

 and flat, and the Toes are broad bordered on each Side with 

 appendent Membranes, but not web'd together, of a pale 

 green Colour, clouded in fome places with a redifh brown. 



The hind Toe is very little, and the Claws broad and flat, 

 like the Nails of a Man's Hand. 



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