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The Red-Throated Ducker or Loon^ 
T his Bird is about the Size of a tame Buck j the Bill, from the Angle of the 
Mouth to the Tip, is three Inches and a Quarter long, and cover'd as far as the 
Noftrils with ihort Feathers. 
The Bill is ffcraight, narrow, Aarp pointed, and of a Black-colour the Head and Sides 
of the Neck are of a blueifh Afh-colour ; the hind Part of the Neck is White, fpotted 
with black Marks drawn downward 3 the Throat, or fore Part of the Neck, is Red, of 
the Colour of dry’d Blood 3 the Back, upper Part of the Wings, and Tail, are of a^ 
dark Afh-colour ; the Qmll Feathers of the Wings darker than the others, they being- 
almoft Black 5 fome of the Middle Quills of the Wings are tipped with White ; the- 
Covert Feathers of the Wings have white Dafhes near their Tips on each Side their 
Shafts ; the Covert Feathers within Side of the Wings are White : The Bread, Belly,, 
Sides under the Wings, and Covert Feathers under the Tail, are White 3 the Sides of 
the Bread are didindly fpotted with Black drawn downward 5 and the Coverts beneath; 
the Tail are fpotted with broader and more confufed Spots of Dudcy 3 the Legs and Feet 
are of a Dufky or Blackifh Colour, yet the Toes are a little inclining to Flefh-co- 
lour 3. it hath three Toes danding forward, all webbed together as in BuckSy with a Fin- 
er Web running along the Inddes of the two inner Toes 3 it hath alfo two very fmalf 
hind Toes, with Fins on their lower Sides 3 the Claws are broad and flat, like human 
Nails 3 the Legs are placed almod at the Extremity of the Body, and are very flat. 
This Bird was brought, preferved dry, from Greenland y and prefented to my good 
Friend Mr. John Warner y Merchant, in Rotherhitby who fince gave it to me, in 
Order to figure and deferibe for this Hidory : It differs principally in the Head from one 
of this Tribe found in Englandy deferibed by Willoughby in his Ornithology, p. 341. 
that having no Rednefs on the Throat. I had lately brought to me one of this Genu&- 
of Birds, newly taken in the River Thames y and by bending the Toes forward I find- 
they will not decline above forty Degrees from the Line of the Leg, whereas to make 
the Leg perpendicular in Walking, it ought to decline ninety Degrees 3, fo I take the 
Report of their walking upright to be a Midake 3 for if the Body be upright, and the 
Legs not fo, the Feet mud dand out before the Bird, and it mud fall backward, unlefs 
it reds on the Knees or Joints of the Legs behind, which is not natural, fo that I 
imagine it mud walk in a half-ercdl Pofition, as I have drawn its Figure. This Bird 
hath never been deferibed to my Knowledge, 
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