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* Wormius his Northern Doncker^ catted, Lumme. 



IT is common among the Norwegians and IJIanders, who in their own Country Lan- 

 guage call it * Lumme. Carolus Clufim mentions it in his AnHarium, pag.3 6 7. It is * l foppofc 

 an elegant bird, of the bignefsof zDuck^, with a black, (harp Bill, two inches long. nameSh 

 Its Head and Neck are covered with grey [ cinereous ~] feathers, ending in a (harp borrowed of 

 point, as if it had a Monkshood on its Back. Its Back and Wings are black, fprink- them ' 

 led over with fquare (pots of white, which yet are bigger on the Back than the 

 Wings. Under the Neck is a (quare oblong black fpot like to a fhield, five inches 

 long, and two broad, compaffed on all fides with feathers variegated of black and 

 white as with a * Girdle. The whole Belly and lower parts of the Wings are white. * zona, a bor~ 

 The Legs are ftretcht forth befide the Tail [as if they grew out of the Vent] fitted not der ot ^ ^ 

 fomuch for walking as for fwimming, not flender, but flat and broad. Each foot 

 hath three Toes,that are black,and joyned together with black membranes,armed with 

 fharp and crooked Claws. The Thighs are alfo hid in the Belly. It is of the Mergi 

 [Diver 3 or rather Colymbi [ Doucker ] kind. In diving it can hold its breath a long 

 time, and no bird can plunge under water more nimbly and fpeedily than it, as they 

 experience who (hoot them.For fo foon as the powder fla(hes,it presently ducks under 

 water, before the bullet can come at it. It builds its Neft fo near the water, that it 

 can, if need be, fpeedily caft it felf into it : But when it betakes it (elf again to its 

 Neft, faftning its Billinto the earth, it hangs its whole weight upon it, till it raiiesup 

 its body, and fo by degrees reaches its Neft. It perceives before by a peculiar natu- 

 ral inftincl: when there are about to fall great (bowers and fhots of rain, and fearing 

 left the flouds fhould deftroy its Neft and Young, its makes a querulous noife and 

 cry : On the contrary, when it prefages fair weather, it exprefles its joy by chearf ul 

 acclamations, and another more pleafant note. It lays yearly three or four Eggs as 

 big as Geefe Eggs, of a * green colour, and (potted. They (ay, that at fet times of the * mfci, **•**- 

 year they depart into hotter Regions, and return not until the Spring be well come leekcoI o« r < r 

 on. Whence they think it ominous for any one to hear the cry of this bird firft fad- 

 ing. The Norwegians think it * a fin to kill or difturb this Bird, which they account * &/*?, 

 holy. They fometimes catch it in their Nefts againft their wills, and fometimes (hoot 

 it with Guns. The IJIanders becaufe they eat it, take it either with a fcare, or with 

 an angle-line. They fatten two ftakes at the entrance of the Neft, upon which they 

 hang, and fo accommodate the Snare, that the Bird going to her Neft may thruft her 

 head into it. Or they crofs the Pool where me frequents at its narrowed: part with a 

 fifhing line, fo that one on each fide holds it, raking therewith the furface of the wa- 

 ter, till the bird fearing fome danger towards dives down to the bottom 5 then ob- 

 ferving the place where (he is rifingup again by the circles there made in the water,thi- 

 ther they direft and there hold a fnare faftned to the line,that coming up out of the wa* 

 ter, (he may put her head into it, and fo be caught by the Neck. 



Its skin is ufed to defend the Head and Breaft from the injury of cold, and pre- 

 ferred before a Swans. This Bird Bejler hath figured in his Gazophylacium by this 

 title. A lingular kind of exotic Water-Swallow.' But it hath nothing almoft common 

 withsL Swal/ow. 



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* The fmall hlacj^and white Diver with a Jbort, fl arp -pointed BiU. 



THe Picture of this Bird was communicated by that worthy perfon Sir Thomas 

 Brown. It hath a Ihort Bill, a little bending at the end, [ both Mandibles. ~] 

 The top of the Head, the Back, Wings, and in general the whole upper part is black* 

 excepting a tranfverfe lirje of white in the Wings. The Chin, Throat* Breaft, as far 

 as the middle of the Belly, and fides of the Tail white: The Tail ihort: The Legs 

 of a fordid green. The Toes web'd together. The Pidrure doth not (hew any hind- 

 toe. This Bird ( faith Sir Thomas ) is not ufual with us 5 1 have met with but two of 

 them, brought me by a coafter,who could give it no name, 



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