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BRITISH BIRDS. 
and under parts, of glofly white : tail tipped with 
white : legs and toes dufky ; webs pale. 
The natural habits of the Speckled Diver are 
much the fame as thofe of the kinds before de- 
fcribed, but it feems ftill more to fliun the rigours 
of the north, and remains longer in the temperate 
climates. In the winter feafon it keeps its route 
fouthward, and is then met with in the Baltic, the 
German ocean, and on various parts of the Britifii 
fliores. In the fpring it retires northward to the 
lakes of the continent, and the illands within the 
Ar£lic circle, to breed and rear its young. The 
female makes her nefi in the grafs, near the edge 
of the water, and lays two eggs of a longilh oval 
Ihape, larger than thofe of a Hen ; they are of a 
dingy ftone-colour, fpotted with black. 
The foregoing figure was done from a fluffed 
fpecimen. 
