THE 
NORTHERN DIVER. 
GENERIC CHARACTER, 
Bill Strong, strait, pointed : upper mandible the 
longest; the edges of each bending in- 
wards. 
Nostrils linear; the upper part divided by a 
small cutaneous appendage. 
Tongue long and pointed ; serrated on each side 
near the base. 
Legs thin and flat; toes four in number, the ex- 
terior longest, the back toe very small 9 
and joined to the interior by a small mem- 
brane. 
Tail short, consisting of twelve feathers. 
Lath. Syn. 
il'ECIFIC CHARACTER, &c. 
Glossy-black Diver with square white spots; 
beneath white ; with white collar streaked 
by black lines. 
The Northern Diver- 
Penn* Brit. ZooL 
Lath, synods. 
Greatest Speckled Diver or Loon. 
Will. orn. 
This species, the largest hitherto discovered, is an 
inhabitant of almost all the northern regions of Eu- 
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