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catch him, which blowing trouble the waters fothat their Canoes are overturned and 

 the men drown, if they do not happen to kill him in the (hooting of five arrows out 

 of a bow. They fancy that in his heart diffedted is or may be found a Jewel, ufeful 

 for many things, and highly prized, not to be confecrated to any but God. But 

 thefe are idle ftories and lies, proceeding from the credulity of thefe people. Its flefh 

 is not pleafant, nor very wholefome, like that of other fenny birds, and therefore 

 not to be ufed for food by any one of a critical palate. 



Between this and the precedent Doucker there is Co little difference, that I fcarce 

 doubt but they are the fame. 



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The grey or afl-coloured Loon of Dr. Brown. 



THis Bird differs from the common Doucker, as well crefted as not crefted, in the 

 grey colour of its body, being much rarer with us. The Picture reprefents 

 the feathers on the crown of the Head ftanding up in form of a ereft or toppin, 



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The greater crefted and horned Doucker; 



IT is fomething lefs than that defcribed in the firft place,but hath a thicker arid longer 

 Bill, approaching to a ferrugineous colour. It is both crefted and horned, ha- 

 ving long feathers ftanding out about the crown of the Head and upper part of the 

 Neck, black above, and red on the fides. The Chin and (pace about the Eyes is white, 

 bounded with red. The Neck is not fblong as in the firft kind. The upper or back- 

 fide of the Neck ispartly blacki(h,and partly (hews fomething of red. The Breaft and 

 Belly are almoft of the fame colour with the fpot we mentioned encompaffing the 

 Eyes, wz,.white with a mixture of red. On the Back fome long downy feathers of a 

 cinereous and a reddiih colour are mingled with the black ones. The Wings are lon- 

 ger in proportion than in the firft, their ridges and almoft all their quil-feathers being 

 whitifh,elfeofafboty colour .Qn the Bird wefaw the Wings wereof a dusky or brown 

 colour, but the leffer quil-feathers were white, as alfo thofe fmall feathers on the bafe 

 . or ridge of the Wing. ] The Legs are not fituate fo backward as in the firft. 



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The Didapper, or Dipper, or Dobchuk* or fmall Doucker, Loon, or Arsfoot : 

 Colymbus five Podicipes minor. 



FOr the fhape of its body it is like to a Teal, but leffer by almoft a third part : Of 

 the weight of fix ounces : From the tip of the Bill to the end of the Claws ten 

 inches and an half long : between the tips of the Wings diftended fixteen broad. Its 

 Bill from the point to the angles of the mouth is one inch, (freight, (harp, almoft like 

 zThrufies Bill, thicker at the Head, and leflening by degrees to the point : The upper 

 Chap black, excepting only its very tip and fides, which are of a white or pale yel- 

 low, as is alfo the whole lower Mandible. The Tongue is long, (harp' like the Bill, 

 and cloven. TheNofthriJs are a little remote from the feathers } The Eyes great, 

 with hazel-coloured Irides. The whole body is inverted with a thick and foft Plu- 

 mage or down, efpecialty on the under-fide. Its colour on the Back is a dusky or 

 dark brown, on the Belly a white, or rather filver-colour. The. Chin white: 

 The Head and Neck darker than the Belly, lighter-coloured than the Back. The 

 Throat and fides of the Neck are a little red : The lower Belly of a fordid dusky 

 colour. The Thighs have a little mixture of red. The Neck is (lender, fcarce an 

 hand-breadth long. Its Wings are fmall and concave : Each having about twenty 

 fix quil-feathers : The twelve outmoft are of a Moufe-dun, or black brown, theinte- 

 riour to the twenty third particoloured, the outer W 7 ebs being dusky, the inner 

 partly white, the white part being in the nearer to the body broader, in the more re- 

 mote feathers narrower. As°for the leffer rows of Wing-feathers,, thofe above are 

 black, thofe beneath white. It hath no Tail at all, but yet hath the rump-glandules, 

 .though leffer than ordinary, out of which alfo fpiingsa brufh or tuft of feathers, as 



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