184 BRITISH BIRDS. 
rows, two on the end of each feather : the under 
parts are white : quills and tail black. The female 
is lefs than the male, and her whole upper plumage 
inclines more to brown. Her under parts are of a 
dirty white, and the bandages on her neck and the 
fpots on her body are not fo diftin^t. 
This fpecies of the Diver feldom vifits the Bri- 
tifli fliores, except in very fevere winters. ' In the 
fummer feafon it inhabits the north of Europe, and 
the Ardic coafts, as far as the river Ob in the Ruf- 
fian dominions, and Hudfon’s Bay in North Ame- 
rica, and is common in the intermediate dreary 
countries in the fame latitudes. They feldom quit 
the fea, or are feen inland, except at the breeding 
feafon, when, for the purpofes of ovation and in- 
cubation, they repair to the frefh-water lakes in the 
Fero Ifles, Spitzbergen, Iceland, Greenland, &:c. 
on the Ihores and fmall iflets of which they make 
their nefts and rear their young. The female is 
faid to lay only two eggs, which are of a dirty white 
or ftone colour ; when Ihe quits her neft, Ihe flies 
very high, and on her return darts down upon it 
in an oblique diredion. 
The natives of fome of the northern countries 
drefs or tan the Ikins of thefe birds, as well as thofe 
of feveral other water-fowls, and make them into 
caps, polices, and other warm garments. 
The foregoing figure was taken from a fluffed 
fpecimen in the Wycliffe Mufeum. 
