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BRITISH BIRDS. 
lars, coverts of the wings, rump, and fides of the 
body, are of a bluifh alh or lead colour : the fore 
part of the neck, breaft, belly, and vent, are yel- 
lowifti white : the baflard and primary quills dark 
brown : a large white patch or bar is formed on the 
middle of the wing, by the tips of the greater co- 
verts and the outer webs of fix of the fecondary 
quills ; but thofe neareft to the body are of a hoary 
dark afh ; the tail, which confifts of fourteen fea- 
thers, is nearly of the fame colour: the legs are 
orange red. 
The habits, manners, and haunts of this fpecies 
are nearly the fame as thofe of the lad; but the 
Dun-diver is met with in this country in greater 
numbers.* They have long been looked upon 
and treated of by ornithologifts as the female’ of 
the Goofander; later obfervations, however, have 
wrought a change of opinion among the modern in- 
veftigators of this branch of natural hiftory, and it is 
now generally agreed that the Dun-diver is a dif- 
tind fpecies. Dr Heyfham, of Carlifle, was proba- 
bly the firft who, by diffedion, removed fome of 
the doubts in which this matter was involved in 
his Catalogue of Cumberland Animals, f he fays, 
* Latham, on the authority of Mr Jackfon, fays they breed 
on the iflands of the river Shannon, near Killaloe, in Ireland 
and are frequently feen there the whole fummer. 
f See additional ornaments to Hutchinfon’s Hiftory of 
Cumberland. 
