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COLYMBUS ARCTICUS. 
BLACK-THROATED DIVER. 
Head hoary; neck beneath violet-black, 
with an interrupted white band. 
Colymbus Arcticus, Lin. Gme. 
Le Lumme, Buff. 
Plongeon Lumme on a gorge noire, Tern. 
Black-throated Diver, Pen. Lath. Be w. 
Mont. 
Little Diver of the Northern Sea, Woods' 
edit, of Buff. 
PROVINCIAL. 
NORTHERN DOUCKER, SPECKLED 
LOON. 
This species is a trifle larger than the 
Red-throated Diver. 
Buffon observes that the epithet Lumme 
or Loom in Lapponic signifies lame, allud- 
ing to the tottering pace of this bird when 
on land: it seldom, however, comes on 
