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 The great Sea-Loon or T>iver. Colymbus maximus. 



Numb. LXXV. 



ITS Weight was three Pounds four Ounces ; its Length from the Point 

 of the Bill to the End of the Claws, twenty feven Inches ; Breadth 

 when the Wings were expanded, three Foot eight Inches ; the Bill, from 

 the Tip to the Angles of the Mouth, was two Inches three Quarters long; 

 the Feathers invefting the whole Body were fine, foft, and thick ; the 

 Head and Neck brown; the Back darker ; the Sides and lower Belly near 

 the Tail dusky; the Bread and Belly of a Silver Colour. It wholly wants 

 the Tail ; each Wing hath about thirty Quill»Feathers, of which the out- 

 mofl twelve are blackifh; the Tip of the thirteenth is white; and the 

 Tops of the following, in order more and more to the twentieth ; after 

 which the next four are wholly white ; the twenty fifth towards the Tip is 

 brown, and in the twenty fixth the white Ends ; the lefTer Rows of Wing- 

 Feathers underneath are white. 



The Bill is redifh, narrow, compreffed fide-ways, about the Point 

 whitifh; the Tongue long, and a little cloven; the Eyesof a dark Coloufj 

 with fome mixture of red ; its Claws were broad like the Nails of a Man's 

 Hand, black on one fide, on the other of a pale blew or afii-colour; the 

 outmoft Toe the longeft ; the Legs broad, flat, ferrate behind, with a 

 double Row of Afperities ; the Toes are broad, bordered on each fide witli 

 appendant Membranes, but not web'd together. 



It hath no Labyrinth on the Wind-pipe : That we have defcribed had a 

 great Gall, a large Stomach, almoft round, and therein was found Sea 

 Weeds and Fifli Bones: This Bird I had from ^ii Thomas Abdy^ who took 

 it alive in a Net. 



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