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BRITISH BIRDS. 
with a reddilh tinge. The male and female are 
nearly alike in their plumage. 
This fpecies inhabits the fame cold countries as 
the other Divers, and its manners and habits do not 
differ from theirs ; but it is of a more lively cha- 
radler, and has a more fprightly appearance than 
any of the preceding kinds : alfo, like the reft of 
the genus, it is driven, in fevere winters, from the 
northern to more fouthern climes. They breed, 
and are common in Greenland, Hudfon’s Bay, Ice- 
land, the Shetland and Orloiey Ifles, &c. The fe- 
male makes her neft, which is compofed of mofs 
and herbage, lined with a little of her own down, 
on the very edge of the fhore : Ihe lays two eggs, 
which are nearly of the fize of thofe of a hen, but 
of a longer fnape, and of a dingy bluifti white, 
thinly marked with dufky fpots. They live in pairs 
with inconceivable affedbon, run fwiftly upon the 
water, dive immediately, but are very aukward upon 
the land, from which they rife with great difficulty. 
Their flight, however, when once bn the wing, is 
both ftrong and fwift: they rife to, a great height, 
making at intervals a difagreeable croaking, or a 
loud howling cry. 
