Book III. O^S^lTHO LOgT. 339 



Chap. II. 



Cloven-footed Douckers that haye no Tails. 



§• I. 



The greater Loon or Arsfoot : Colymbus major, Aldrov. 



IT weighed a pound : Was from Bill to Claws twenty three inches long : Between 

 the extremities of the Wings Ipread twenty three and an half broad. The Bill 

 from the tip to the angles of the mouth was two inches long. The feathers in- 

 verting the whole body were fine, fort, and thick : The Head and Neck brown : The 

 Back blacker : The fides and lower Belly dusky .* The Breaft of a filver colour. It 

 wholly wants the Tail. Each Wing hath about thirty quil-feathers : Of which the 

 outmoft twelve are black 3 the tip of the thirteenth is white 5 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 leffer rows of Wing-feathers underneath are white. 



Its Bill is black, narrow or compreffed fideways $ about the angles of the mouth 

 and on the nether Chap yellowifh. The Tongue long, and a little cloven : The Eyes 

 of an afti-colour with fome mixture of red : Its Claws are broad like the nails of a 

 man, black on one fide, on the other of a pale blue or afh-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 with appendant membranes, but not 

 web'd together. 



It hath no Labyrinth on the Wind-pipe : That we defcribed had a great Gall : A 

 large Stomach, almoft round, and therein we found Sea-weeds and fifti-bones. 



§. 11. 



The greater crejiedor copped Doucker of Aldrovand, lib. 19. cap.52. 



BOth Mandibles of the Bill, where it joyns to the Head, are tin&ured with a Saf- 

 fron-colour. The Head is black on the crown, beneath cinereous ; which co- 

 lours meet near the ends of the Eyes (which are yellow.) From the back of the 

 Head hangs down a tuft of black feathers. The upper part of the Neck is alio black, 

 the remaining part of a middle colour between * ferrugineous and rofe. The Breaft *Rufiy.' 

 and Belly are of a whitiih alh-colour. The Back and Wings black, but of thefe the 

 ridges and extremes are white. It hath no Tail at all : The Rump from cinereous is 

 black. The Legs, Feet, and Claws are of the lame make and ftiape as in the 

 former. 



§. III. 



Of the Water-Hare , or crefied Mexican Doucker of Hernandez. 



THat kind of Duck [ fo he calls it ] which Ariftotle calls Colymbm, but Gaza ren- 

 ders Vrinatrix, the Mexicans are wont to call Acitli or the Water-hare, This 

 would be altogether the fame with that defcribed and delineated by fome of the later 

 Writers, were not the Head adorned with a greater and black creft, the Belly of a 

 fhining (ilver colour, and the Neck beneath of a pure white, above of a dark brown. 

 It frequents Lakes, either fwimming in the water or abiding near it: For it can nei- 

 ther fry, nor conveniently Walk on the Land, its Thighs being fo joyned and as it 

 were * united to the body, that they ferve only for fwimming, not for walking. It* coalite 

 feeds upon the fifties it catches, and they are its fuftenance. It breeds up its young jjgg^ 

 among rulhes and reeds 5 and exceeds not thebignefs of our common Ducks. The ogener ° 

 Male is fomewhat longer-bodied, and hath a larger neck and creft. The Bill of the 

 Female is (horter, black, and On both fides near the Eyes covered with fulvous fea- 

 thers, whereas the Males is with white.- This is that Bird which the Indians fabu- 

 loufly report to call forth or conjure up winds, when he perceives the Fowlers aim to 



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