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/«?«// -Black White Divers. 
r~ l ~ i H E Bird is here reprefented of its natural Size, Handing on a Rock. Wtllough- 
I by hath defcribed 'it from a Pifture as well as he could, .but has ranged it with a 
GoTus to which it doth not belong ; It is of tliat Tribe of whole-footed Sea-Birds which 
want the back Toe. The original Drawing from whence Willoughby^ his Do- 
fcription was Sir 1‘homas Brown's, and is now in the Colleftion of Sir Hans Sloane-, he 
calls it Mergulus Melanoleucos rojiro acuto brevi. ^ , m j cj 
The Bill is Black and round, being equal in Height and Width) tl^eTop and Sides 
of the Head, whole upper Side, Neck, Back, Wings, and Tail, is of a Black or Dulky 
Colour. The Quills next the Body are tipped with White, which form an oblique 
Bar of White ^ofs the Wing when it is clofed) the Infide of the Wing is of a 
brownifli Afli-colour ; the Throat is White, which Whitenefs terminates brokenly on 
each Side about the Place of the Ears ; the fore Part of the Neck is of a Grey or Afli- 
colour, pretty dark, growing gradually lighter on the Bread: ; the Belly, Sides under 
the Wings, and Coverts under the Tail, are White ) the Legs and ^et are of a dirty 
Fleih-colour; the Webs bet'ween the Toes Black ; it wants the back Toe, having only 
three, all Handing forward, - armed with crooked .Clavys j it hath no Mernbranes, or la- 
teral WebS) on the Infides of the inner Toes, as moH web-footed Birds have; it is 
hare of Feathers a very little above the Knees : I fuppofe this to be the Hen Biid. 
The upper Bird in this Plate, reprefented flying, is of the Size of the kiH defcribed : 
rimagine it to be the Cock of the foregoing ; the Bill is Black, fliaped as in the former. 
The whole upper Side agrees exadly with that, as doth the Belly, ^ Sides, ^and Covets 
under the Taih The Inlide of the Wings differs from the other, in that it hath a. Bar 
of dirty White acrofs it when extended, the Coverts of the Qmlls being of that Co- 
lour : the Head and Neck in this is wholly Black, which makes the greatefi Difference 
in thefe two Birds j the Legs and Feet are, for Colour and Shape, the very fame as in 
Th^rH of thefe Birds I drew from the Bird fluffed, at the Virginia Coffee-houfe, 
BtUnAlht Royal Exchange, London, Anno 1742. According to Sir of 
Norwich, 's Account, they are very fcarce Birds, and are found on the Se^Crafls (neaiefl 
Norwich I fuppofe he means) two of theni being brought to Inm by a Coafler. See its 
Defeription and Figure in Ornithology. P. 343. 59.'- 
The fecond Bird I found hanging in the Marlborough s-Hcad Alehoufe, Petticoat- 
Lane, Eondon, which I procured to draw, and then return’d it to the fame Place, Aiino 
174.1 Jlbin has deferib’d this Bird, and call’d it the Hen Greenlaiid Dove, m which 
he was miflaken, and this Miflake led him into a groffer Error, for Be made tins a Mo- 
del for his Cock Greenland Dove, without fearching after Nature : His Figure is not un- 
like, except the Bill’s being a good deal too thick, and the Legs and Feet too fmall. 'The 
Alehoufe People could not tell from whence this came, but 1 am almoH fure that they 
muff be Male and Female of the fame Species, from their great Similitude : And as 
WillouMfs Defeription was too brief, and only from a Picture, and s Fipue lome- 
thing lame, and joined as Female to a Male of which it was not a Species ; I hope my 
thus placing them together in one View, with Deferiptions immediately from Nature 
will be received by the Curious as an Amendment to what has hitherto been publifted 
concerning thefe Krds, . 
