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COLYMBUS GLACIALIS. 
corre(:tness of this observation I have myself sinu* 
experienced in a winter voyage on the southern coasts 
of the United States. 
This species seldom visits the shores of Britai®' 
except in very severe winters ; hut it is met n ith 
the north of liiirope, and spreads along the arctic coas* 
as far as the month of the river Ob, in the dominion* 
of Russia. It is found about Spitzbergen, Iceland, aa“ 
Hudson’s Bay. Makes its nest, in the more northef'J 
regions, on the little isles of fresh water lakes : ever) 
pair keep a lake to themselves. It sees well, flies vet/ 
high, and, darting obliquely, falls secure into its ncs';, 
Appears in (Ti-eenland in April or the beginning ^ 
May, and goes away in September or October, on 
first fall of snow.* It is also found at Nootka SouudT 
and Kamtschatka. 
The Barahinzians, a n.ation situated between the riv^^ 
Oh and the Irtisch, in the Russian dominions, tan 
breasts of this and other water fowl, whose skins they 
prepare in such a manner as to preserve the down up>’? 
them, and, sewing a number of these together, they srlj 
them to make pidisses, caps, Itc. Garments made ® 
these are very warm, never imbibing the least moistot^’ 
and are more lasting than could be imiigined.J 
The natives of Greenland use the skins for clotbi>'|’ 
and the Indians about Hudson’s Bay adorn their hca“ 
with circlets of their feathers. § 
Lewis and Clark’s party, at the mouth of the Colunih* 
saw robes made of the skins of loons, || and ahundaU'-’ 
of these birds during the time that they wintered * 
Fort Clatsop on that riv’er.** 
The Laplanders, according to Reguard, cover th^' 
heads with a cap made of the skin of a loom, (loo'h/ 
which word .siguities iu their language lauu?, becau^l^ 
the bird cannot walk well. They place it on th«J^ 
head in such a manner, that the bird’s head falls ■ 
their brow, and its wings cover their cars. 
* Pennant. f Cook’s X«st Voyage, ii. p. 237, Am- 
1 Latham.- § Aretic Zoology. . || Gass’s JowrS 
** History of the Expedition, vol. ii, p. 189. 
