BRITISH BIRDS. 
183 
GREAT NORTHERN DIVER. 
LOON, IMBRIM, OR EMBERGOOSE. 
(Colymbus glactalisf Lin . — Ulmbriniy BufF.) 
. The Great Diver weighs about fixteen pounds ; 
meafures three feet fix inches in length, and four 
feet eight in breadth. The bill is black, four inches 
and a half long, and ftrongly formed : the head is 
of a deep black, gloifed with green and purple re- 
flexions : the neck appears as if wrapped obliquely 
round with a bandage of the fame colours as the 
head ; the feathers in the fpaces between are white, 
flreaked down the middle with narrow black lines ; 
the fides of the breafl are marked in the fame man- 
ner : the whole of the upper parts are black, fpot- 
ted with white : the fpots on the fcapulars are the 
iargeft, and of an oblong fquare fhape, placed in 
