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SECTION IV. 



Oftyhole^footed^kdsmththebacJ^toeloofe, having a narrow Tiill, 



hooked at the end y and toothed, called Divers, in Latine, M e r g i . 



Chap. I. 

 The Goofander. Merganfer, * Jldrov. Harle, Belloml J£g*J 



chap 63. 



ITs weight was alraoft four pounds : Its length from the tip of the Bill to the 

 end of the Tail or Claws (for they were equally extended ) twenty eight inches: 

 Its breadth, the Wings being fpread, forty. It is long-bodied : Its Back broad 

 and flat. The Head and upper part of the Neck is of a very deep (hining 

 green, almoft black: The lower half of the Neck is of a gloffie white. Yet the up- 

 per fide of the bottom of the Neck* the middle of the Back, and the interiour fca- 

 pular feathers are black Q theexteriour are white. ~] The lower part of the Back is 

 of a pale afh-colour. On both fides near the Rump, and on the very, Rump and 

 Thighs the feathers are variegated with tranfverfe * dusky lines. The Tail is made* or grey, for 

 up of eighteen feathers, wholly cinereous. Each Wing hath about twenty fix prime the >' are madc 

 feathers, the ten outmoft blacks the four next alfo black, but tiptwith white : The oTinnumera- 

 five fucceeding white,, with their bottoms black : The remaining fix or feven next Me little Mack 

 the body white, with their exteriour edges black. In the fecond row of the Wing JSs, or 

 thofe incumbent on the white quil-feathers are white from their tips to the middle, 

 beneath black. Thence as far as the baftard Wing all are white ; But between thofe 

 white ones and the long fcapular feathers fome black ones intervene. Whence if you 

 take the long fcapular feathers, which cover the Back, for part of the Wing, the 

 Wings will be ( as Aldrovandm defcribes them ) black toward the back, next white, 

 With a certain palenefsj then black again, but more remifsly 5 after that again white, 

 the extreme feathers at laft being black. The whole under-fide of the body (ex- 

 cepting the Wings, which are white underneath ) of a faint yellow or Ifabella colour. 

 The exteriour feathers of the Thighs are elegantly varied with tranfverfe waved lines 

 of a whittfh and blackiih colour, alternately placed. 



The Bill meafured from the tip to the corners of the mouth exceeds the length of 

 a mans middle finger: The lower Mandible black, the upper along its middle or up- 

 per part black, on the fides red, the tip being black and hooked, both upper and 

 lower toothed on both fides like a Saw, the teeth inclining inward. The Tongue and 

 Palate are yellow. 



It hath not a Creft properly fo called on the Head, but the feathers are more loofe, 

 and ftand more (taring upwards than ordinary, whence alfb the Head feems to be big- 

 ger than indeed it is. The Ears are round} the Nofthrils large, the Ir ides of the 

 Eyes of a (anguine colour. The Legs and Feet are of an elegant red-lead coloun 

 The back-toe broad, with an appendant membrane. It hath a huge bony labyrinth on 

 the wind-pipe jull: above the divarications and befides, the windpipe hath twofwel* 

 lings out one above another, each refembling a powder-puff. 



The Stomach is fcarce mufculous^ out of it diiTecfed we took a Rock and anEf/, 

 whence it is manifeft, that the bird feeds upon fifties. It hath a gall-bladder. The 

 blind guts were two or three inches long, and full of Excrements. 



The Dun-Diver orSparlin-fotvl : Merganfer foemina. Mergus cirratus 

 longirofter, Gefn. & Aldrov. 



The Sexes in this Vind of bird differ extremely from one another in colour, Co that 

 both Gefncr and Aldrovand do fet them forth for different fyecies, calling the Female, 

 Mergus cirratus longirofter major. 



_ The Head of this ( which we take to be the Female of the precedent ) is of a for- 

 did red. The feathers on the Crown of the Head (land out fomewhat, and feem to 

 bend backward in form of a creft or toppin. The Chin is white 1 The whole Back 



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