LYRE OR LYNE. 
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little deviation from the line of the body, it is enabled to propel itself 
in the water with great velocity in a straight line, as well as turn with 
astonishing quickness. 
LOUGH DIVER. — A name for the Smew, 
LOXIA (Brisson.) — * Crossbill, a genus thus characterised. Bill 
rather long, both mandibles equally convex, and very strong, much 
compressed ; and, when at rest, crossing each other at the points, and 
having their cutting edges from the middle forward bending inward. 
Nostrils round at the sides of the base, and hidden by hristly-reflected 
feathers. Legs with the feet having three toes before and one behind, 
the fore ones entirely divided. Wings having the first and second 
quills of equal length, the third being the longest in the wing.* 
LOXIADiE (Vigors.) — * Crossbills, a group of perching birds 
(Insessores, Vigors.)* 
LUMME (^Colyrnhus arcticus, Linnaeus.) 
Colymbus arcticus, Linn. Syst. 1. p. 221. 4. — Gmel. Syst. 2. p. 587.. — Tnd. Orn, 
2. p. 800. 4. — Raii, Syn. p. 125. 7. — Will. p. 259. t. 62. — Ih. (Anp^l.) p. 343. 
t. 62. — Temm. 2. p. 916. — Mergus gutture nigro, Briss. 6. p. 115. 4 Ib. 8vo. 
2. p. 391. — Luinme, Buff. 8. p. 262. — Black-throated Diver, Br. Zool. 2. No. 
241. t. 85. f. 2. — Arct. Zool. 2. No. 444. — Edw. t. 146. — Lath. Syn. 6. p. 343. 
4. — Lewins Br. Birds, 6. t. 229. — Flem.. Br. Aniin. p. 133. — Mont. Diet. 1. 
Provincial. — Northern Doiicker. Speckled Zoon. 
The length of this species is two feet ; bill near two inches long, 
slender, black ; the fore part of the head and throat black ; hind part 
of the head and neck ash-colour ; sides of the neck white, spotted black; 
on the fore part of the neck a large patch of black, changeable to purple 
and green in different lights ; the back and upper parts black ; scapu- 
lars marked with square spots of white; wing coverts with round spots; 
breast and belly white ; quills dusky ; tail short and black ; legs black, 
with a reddish cast on the inside. 
This bird is rarely found in England, hut is not uncommon in the 
northern parts of Europe ; said to inhabit the lakes of Siberia, espe- 
cially those of the arctic regions, as well as North America, particularly 
Hudson’s Bay. 
In some countries the skin is used for various sorts of clothing, and 
other purposes, being warm and exceedingly tough, which is common 
to all the genus. 
LUND A. — A name for the Puffin. 
LUNGS OF BIRDS are internally attached to the spinal part of 
the breast. They are not divided into lobes, as in quadrupeds. The 
membrane {Pleurct) which covers them, communicates by many open- 
ings with different parts of the body, for the purpose of transmitting air 
to render the body buoyant. 
LYRE or LYNE.— Names for the Sheerwater, 
