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The fmall Black and White Divers. 
T H E Bird is here reprefented of its natural Size, Handing on a Rock. Willough¬ 
by hath defcrihed it from a Picture as well as he could, but has ranged it with a 
Genus to which it doth not belong : It is of that Tribe of whole-footed Sea-Birds which 
want the back Toe. The original Drawing from whence Willoughby made his De- 
fcription was Sir Thomas Brown's^ and is now in the Colleftion of Sir Hans Shane y he 
calls it Mergulus Melanoleucos rojiro acuto brevi. 
The Bill is Black and round, being equal in Height and Width) the Top and Sides 
of the Head, whole upper Side, Neck, Back, Wings, and Tail, is of a Black or Dulky^ 
Colour. The Qmlls next the Body are tipped with White, which form an oblique 
Bar of White acrofs the Wing when it is clofed j the Infide of the Wing is of a 
brownifh Afli-colour ; the Throat is White, which Whitenefs terminates brokenly on 
each Side about the Place of the Ears-j the fore Part of the Neck is of a Grey, or Aih- 
Golour, pretty dark, growing gradually lighter on theBreaft; the Belly, Sides under 
the Wings, and Coverts under the Tail, are White j the Legs and Feet are of a dirty 
Flelh-colourthe Webs between the Toes Black j it wants the back Toe, having only 
three, all Handing forward, armed with crooked Claws j it hath no Membranes, or la¬ 
teral Websj on the Infides of the inner Toes, as moH web-footed Birds liave) it is 
bare of Feathers a very little above the Knees : I fuppofe this to be the Hen Bird. 
The upper Bird in this Plate, reprefented flying, is of the Size of the laH deferibed : 
I imagine it to be the.Cock of the foregoing j the Bill is Black, Hiaped as in the former. 
The whole upper Side agrees exadlly with that, as doth the Belly, Sides, and Coverts 
under the Tail. The Infide of the Wings differs from the other, in that it hath a Bar' 
of dirty White acrofs it when extended, the Coverts of the Quills being of that Co¬ 
lour.; the Head and Neck in this is wholly Black, which makes the greateH Difference 
in thefe two Birds; the Legs and Feet are, for Colour and Shape, the very fame as in 
the formei% 
The firH of thefe Birds I drew from the Bird Huffed, at the Virginia Coffee-houfe, 
behind the Royal Exchange, London, Anno 1742. According to Sir Thomas Brown, of 
Norwich,'% Account, they are very fcarce Birds, and are found on the Sea CoaHs (neareH 
Norwich I fuppofe he means) two of them being brought to him by a CoaHer. See its 
Defeription and Figure in ^z 7 /wi!^/ 6 /^^’s Ornithology. P. 343. Tab. 
The fecond Bird I found hanging in the Marlborough's-He ad Alehoufe, Fetticoat- 
Lane, Lo?idon, which I procured to draw, and then return’d it to the fame Place, 
1743.. Hlbin has aeferib’d this Bird, and call’d it,the Hen Greenland. Hove, in which 
he was miHaken, and this MiHake led him into a groffer Error, for be’made this a Mo-, 
del for his Cock Greenland Dove, without fearching after Nature * His Figure is not un-. 
like, except the Bill’s being a good deal too thick, and the Legs.and Feet too fmall. The 
Alehoufe People could not tell from v/hence this came, but l am almoH. Hire that they ; 
muH be Male and Female of the fame Species, from -. their great Similitude : And as 
Wilkughby’?, Defeription was too brief, and only from a.Picture, and ./ 7 / 7 /;^’s Figure fome- 
thing lame, and joined as Female to a Male of which -k was not a Species ; I hope my 
thus placing them together in one View, with Deferiptions immediately from Nature, 
will be received by the Curious as an Amendment to what has hitherto been publifbed ' 
concerning thefe Birds, . The 
