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great Divers. Their Legs are joyned to the Loins near 
their Rump 3 That they may both fwim and dive with the 
greatert fwiftnefs and eafe. (a) And their Bodies being 0) ibid, 
hereby extended fo much the farther from the centre of 
gravity, it becomes the more laborious to them to walk, 
and fo inclines them to keep more on the water, as their 
fitteft place 3 (b) as the fame Author much to this purpofe. p 2 5 8 « 
The Skin of this Bird is fometimes worn on the Head and & 2 5P ° 
Breaft to keep them warm 3 and preferred before the Swans. 
The BILL of the GREATEST LOON. It belongs to 
the firft Species, but the Bird was of leifer growth. 
The two FEET of the GREAT NORWEGIAN 
LOON, (c) (c) Will 
The FOOT of the LESSER LOON, called the DID AP- ° rn - 
PER or DOBCHICK. See the Defcnption of the Bird in 
Mr. WiUughby. All the Loons breed in Mona, Farra, and 
other Scotijh Iflands. 
The FOOT of the SHAG, called Qraculus Pa/mipes. 
Sec the Bird in Mr. WiUughby. He is a little bigger than 
a Tame Drake. His Foot ftands more floaping than in 
the Loon 3 the inmoft Toe being the longer!. It is obfer- 
vable, that of all Web-footed Fowl or Palmipedes, only 
the Shag and the Cormorant, are known to fit and build 
their Nefts in Trees, (a 1 ) (djwu 
The PELECANE. Onocrotalut, from the noife he makes p u g 2 h £ mith ' 
like an Afs. See the Defcription hereof in Aldrova?idus, 
WiUughby, and others. I add, That the fhortnefs of his 
Trunk or Body, in refpe<5t to the other Parts, is obferva- 
ble 3 not being a foot long : whereas from the end of his 
Bill to his Rump, he's near an Eln long : and to the end of 
his Toes, he s above a yard and half. I fhall defcribe his 
Bill a little more particularly. 
The upper Beak, from the bottom of his Forehead, is 
fourteen inches long 3 behind an inch over, and convex 
or ridged 3 before, an inch and half over, and almoft flat. 
It is compofed of three Bones 3 the end of the middlemoft 
is hooked like a Hawks Bill 3 the edges of the two utmoft 
are (harp, and bended downwards 3 all made rough with- 
in with five or fix edged-lines running through the length 
of the Beak f thus well contriv'd for the holding the moft 
flippery Prey. The end of the nether Beak, is almoft like 
the 
