Boo k I'll. 0$(3^1THOLOgr. 34-1 



in other Birds. . The Legs are fituate very backwards at the end of the body, made 

 rather for fwimming than walking, (fo that it cannot walk, but with, the body ereft 

 almoft perpendicularly ) compreffedor flat, of a fordid green colour, ferrate behind 

 with a double row of afperities. The foals of the feet are black. The Feet are divi- 

 ded into three broad Toes, finned on each fide with lateral membranes, having thin, 

 broad, blunt Claws like humane nails. Yet are the Toes joyned together by inter- 

 vening membranes from the divarication to the firft joynt. It hath alfb a fmall back- 

 toe finned in like manner on each fide : Two blind guts of a moderate length : No La- 

 byrinth on the Wind-pipe: A membranaceous ftomach : Strong mufculous Thighs,by 

 the help whereof it lwims very fwiftly, diving down to the bottom, and rifing again 

 at pleafure. From the make and conformation of its parts it moves with more cafe 

 and expedition under water, than' either upon the furface of the water, or upon the 

 Land. Sofbonas it is rifen above, water it holds up its Head, looks about it, and 

 with wonderful celerity plunges it felf under water again. It can hardly raife it felf 

 up out of the water, but when it is once gotten upon the Wing it. can hold out flying 

 a long time. The ftomach of that we diiTecf ed was full of grafs and weeds. Bellam- 

 ys faith, that it feeds molt willingly upon fifh.es. Being rotted it fmells very ftrong. 



Both Gefner and Aldrovand defcribe two kinds of fmall J}onck$rs y but they differ 

 fo little one from the other that I fuppofe the diverflty is rather in Age or Sex than in 

 Species. - 



Chap. III. 

 Whole-footed Douckers with Tails. 



The greateftjpeckled Diver or Loon : Colymbus maximus caudatus .3 Mergus max. 

 Farrenfis five Arcticus, Cluf. 



N His is a Angular kind of Bird, and as it were of a middle nature between 

 whole-footed birds with four fore-toes and with three. In bignefs it exceeds 

 a tame Duc\, coming near to a Goofe. It is long-bodied, hath a round Tail, 

 and a fmall Head. The upper part of the Neck next to the Head is covered with 

 feathers fo thick fet, that it feemstobe bigger than the very Head it felf. 



The colour of the upper part, vi%. the Neck, Shoulders, covert-feathers of the 

 Wings, and whole Back, is a dark grey or dusky, pointed or fpeckled with white 

 fpots, thinner fet on the Neck, and thicker on the Back. Thefe white (pots are big- 

 ger upon the long fcapular feathers and coverts of the Wings, and fmaller in the mid- 

 dle of the Back. The lower part of the Neck, the Breaft and Belly are white. In a 

 bird I faw that was killed in the Ifle of Jarfey the Head was black and alfo the Neck, 

 which had a white ( or rather grey ) ring, about the middle of an inch or inch and 

 half broad, confifting of abundance of fmall white fpecks. We counted in the two * mtmim 

 outmoft * joynts of each Wing thirty cjuil-feathers, but they are fhort, all black; or u bon . cs be ° 

 of a dark brown. It hath a very fhort Tail, of the figure of a Ducks, made up ofandloyS 

 at leaft twenty feathers. Its Bill is ftreight, {harp, like that of the Guiikm, almoft 

 three inches long 5 the upper Mandible black or livid, covered with feathers to the 

 very Nofthrils, reflected a little upwards - the nether is white. The Nofthrils are 

 divided in the middle by a skin hanging down from above. It is whole-footed, and 

 hath very long fore- toes, efpecially the outmoft. The back-toe is very fhort and 

 little. Its Legs are of a mean length, but flat and broad like the ends of Oars, the 

 exteriour furface being brown or black : The interiour livid or pale-blue. The 

 Claws broad like the nails of a man. The Legs in this bird are fituate almoft in the fame 

 plain with the Back 5 fo that it feems not to be able to walk urfefs ere&ed perpendi- 

 cularly upon the Tail. It hath no Labyrinth upon the Wind-pipe. The Liver is di- 

 vided into two Lobes, and hath a bladder to contain Gall : Above the ftomach the 

 Gullet is dilated into a kind of Craw, the interiour furface whereof is granulated 

 with certain papillary glandules. The Throatisvaft, loofe, and dilatable. The guts 

 large, efpecially towards the ftomach : The ftomach lefs flefhy and mufculous than in 

 granivorous birds. 



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