LOON. 307 



olive-brown, three quarters of an inch long; claws black; outer toe 

 very slightly connected at the base by a membrane to the middle one. 



This bird was shot for a jack snipe on a salt marsh not very remote 

 from the sea, in the month of November. 



Another specimen, which is without doubt the Tringa pusilla, in its 

 nestling feathers, or prior to its first moulting, had the forehead and 

 cheeks round the eyes very pale, nearly white, throat and all beneath 

 white, except across the breast, where it is mixed with light brown ; the 

 crown of the head, back, scapulars, and wing coverts, dusky black, 

 margined with pale rufous, while in some of the scapulars the margins 

 are nearly white, which gives the bird a spotted appearance ; the back 

 of the neck is brown, mixed with cinereous, equally like those of the 

 other ; the middle feathers of the tail, like the tertials, dusky, bordered 

 with ferruginous ; the others cinereous, palest on the margins ; legs 

 dusky. 



Making some allowance for the different manner in which authors 

 describe the same bird, as well as the very vague definition of colours, 

 there is no doubt that this is the least snipe of Bewick, and the Brown 

 Sandpiper of the British Zoology. Most young birds that differ from 

 these points at first are more or less spotted or mottled, and among 

 the Sandpipers this is a common primary appearance ; the young of the 

 dunlin, knot, and some other species, are more spotted than the adult, 

 and we perceive that the perfect state of the Little Sandpiper is a plain 

 cinereous brown, with dusky shafts only. 



LITTLE WHITE HERON.— The young of the Little Egret. 



LITTLE YELLOW BIRD.— A name for the Hay Bird. 



LONG-EARED OWL.— A name for the Horn Owl. 



LONG-LEGGED PLOVER.— A name for the Stilt. 



LONG-LEGGED SANDPIPER.— A name for the Wood Sand- 

 piper. 



LONG NECK.— A name for the Bittern. 

 LONG-TAILED CAPON. -A name for the Bottle Tit. 

 LONG-TAILED DUCK.— A name for the Sarcelle. 

 LONG-TAILED MAG. — A name for the Bottle Tit. 

 LONG-TAILED TIT.— A name for the Bottle Tit, 

 LONG TONGUE.— A name for the Wryneck. 

 LOON (Colymbus glacialis, Linnaeus.) 



Colymbus glacialis, Linn. Syst. 1. p. 221. 5. — Gmel. Syst. 2. p. 588 — Ind. Orn. 

 2. p. 799. 1. — Temm. 2. p. 910. — Colymbus maxiraus caudatus, Raii, Syn. p. 

 125. A. 4.— Will. p. 259.— Mergus major naevius, Briss. 6. p. 120. 6. t. 11. f. ?. 



— Mergus naevius, Briss. 6. p. 118.5 lb. 8vo. 2. p. 391.392. — L'lmbrim, 



Buff. 8. p. 258. t. 22.— Greatest speckled Diver, or Loon, Will. (Angl.) p. 341. 

 Albin, 3. t. 93.— Northern Diver. Br. Zool. 2. No. 327. t. 84 — lb. fob 139. t. 



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