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LYRE OR LYNE. 



little deviation from the line of the body, it is enabled to propel itself 

 in the water with great velocity in a straight line, as well as turn with 

 astonishing quickness. 



LOUGH DIVER. — A name for the Smew. 



LOXIA (Brisson.) — * Crossbill, a genus thus characterised. Bill 

 rather long, both mandibles equally convex, and very strong, much 

 compressed ; and, when at rest, crossing each other at the points, and 

 having their cutting edges from the middle forward bending inward. 

 Nostrils round at the sides of the base, and hidden by bristly-reflected 

 feathers. Legs with the feet having three toes before and one behind, 

 the fore ones entirely divided. Wings having the first and second 

 quills of equal length, the third being the longest in the wing.* 



LOXIADiE (Vigors.) — * Crossbills, a group of perching birds 

 (Insessores, Vigors.)* 



LUMME (Colymbus arcticus, Linn^us.) 



Colymbus arcticus, Linn. Syst. 1. p. 221. 4. — Gmel. Syst. 2. p. 587 — Tnd. Orn. 



2. p. 800. A.—Raii, Syn. p. 125. 7 Will. p. 259. t. 62.— Ib. (Angl.) p. 343. 



t. 62. — Temm. 2. p. 916. — Mergus gutture nigro, Briss. 6. p. 115. 4 Ib. 8vo. 



2. p. 391.— Lumme, Buff. 8. p. 262.— Black-throated Diver, Br. Zool. 2. No. 

 241. t. 85. f. 2.— Arct. Zool. 2. No. AAA.—Edw. t. 146.— Lath. Syn. 6. p. 343. 

 A.—Lewins Br. Birds, 6. t. 229.— Flem. Br. Anim. p. 133.— Mont. Diet. 1. 



Provincial. — Northern Doucker. Speckled Zoon. 



The length of this species is two feet ; bill near two inches long, 

 slender, black ; the fore part of the head and throat black ; hind part 

 of the head and neck ash-colour ; sides of the neck white, spotted black; 

 on the fore part of the neck a large patch of black, changeable to purple 

 and green in different lights ; the back and upper parts black ; scapu- 

 lars marked with square spots of white; wing coverts with round spots; 

 breast and belly white ; quills dusky ; tail short and black ; legs black, 

 with a reddish cast on the inside. 



This bird is rarely found in England, but is not uncommon in the 

 northern parts of Europe ; said to inhabit the lakes of Siberia, espe- 

 cially those of the arctic regions, as well as North America, particularly 

 Hudson's Bay. 



In some countries the skin is used for various sorts of clothing, and 

 other purposes, being warm and exceedingly tough, which is common 

 to all the genus. 



LUND A. — A name for the Puffin. 



LUNGS OF BIRDS are internally attached to the spinal part of 

 the breast. They are not divided into lobes, as in quadrupeds. The 

 membrane (Pleura) which covers them, communicates by many open- 

 ings with different parts of the body, for the purpose of transmitting air 

 to render the body buoyant. 



LYRE or LYNE.— Names for the Sheerwater. 



