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RED-THROATED DIVEk. 
RED-THROATED LOON, OR RAIN GOOSE. 
[Colymlus feptentrionallsi Lin . — Le Plongeon a gorge rouge, Buff.) 
This bird meafures three feet five inches in 
breadth, two feet to the end of the tail, and four 
inches more to the end of the toes, and weighs 
nearly three pounds. The bill is dark coloured, 
and lefs than that of the Speckled Diver : the irides 
reddifh : head and fides of the neck bluifh lead 
colour: throat rufty red: the hinder part of the 
neck from the nape towards the Ihoulders and 
fides of the breafl, is ftreaked downwards with 
dulky and white. The upper parts of the plumage 
are of a greyifh duflcy colour, thinly fprinkled all 
over with fmall white fpots, which on the coverts 
and fcapulars alfume a more ftreaked or lengthened 
form : the under parts are white : the legs dark, 
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