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Imber Diver. Br. Zool. No. 238. 
Lath. Gen. Syn. §. 340. 2. 
Le Grand Plongeon. Briffan 6. 105. Lab. 10. 
Buff. Oif. 8. p. 251.—Pl. Enl. gr4. 
NRE 
The Imber Diver inhabits the feas about the Orkney and Ferroe 
Iflands, and never vifits the fouthern parts of Great Britain, except 
in fevere winters. Living chiefly at fea, it is taken with much dif- 
ficulty. If purfued when fwimming, it dives under the water, and 
does not appear again till it is at a confiderable diftance from its 
purfuers. It is often caught under water by a hook, baited with 
{mall fifth. Willoughby fays, they are fometimes taken in this 
manner fixty feet under water. 
Being rarely feen on land, it has been believed that it never quitted 
the water, and that it hatched its young in a hole formed by nature 
under the wing. Naturalifts have difcovered its neft among reeds 
and flags in the water, where it is kept continually wet, as in fome 
of the Grebe genus. 
This fpecies is larger than the common goofe : the length is about 
twenty-five inches. The male is faid to be diftinguifhed by a few 
brown fpecks on the fide of the neck, and by having the colours 
throughout more defined than in the female: fome authors have, 
however, confidered the fuppofed females as birds not in an adult 
fate. 
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