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^he Red-Throated Ducker or Loon. 
^ I ^ HIS Bird is about the Size of a tame Ducky the Bill, from the Angle of the 
jL Mouth to the Tip, is three Inches and a Quarter long, and cover’d as far as the' 
Noftrils with Ihort Feathers. 
The Bill is ftraight, narrow, Iharp pointed, and of a Black-colour j the Head and Sides 
of the Neck are of a blueifh Afh-colourj the hind Part of the Neck is White, fpotted^ 
with black Marks drawn downward 3 the Throat, or fore Part of the Neck, is Red, of 
the Colour of dry’d Blood 5 the Back, upper Part of the Wings, and Tail, are of a 
dark Afh-colour; the Qinll Feathers of the Wings darker than the others, they being 
almoll Black; fome of the Middle Quills of the Wings are tipped with White 3 the 
Covert Feathers of the Wings have white Dalhes near their Tips on each Side their 
Shafts 3 the Covert Feathers within Side of the Wings are White: The Bread, Belly, 
Sides under the Wings, and Covert Feathers under the Tail, are White ; the Sides of 
• the Bread are didindly fpotted with Black drawn downward 3 and the Coverts beneath 
the Tail are fpotted with broader and more confufed Spots of Dulky 3 the Legs and Feet 
are of a Dulky or Blackifh Colour, yet the Toes are a little inclining to Fledi-co- 
lour 3 it hath three Toes danding forward, all webbed together as in Ducks^ with a Fin¬ 
er Web running along the Inlides of the two inner Toes 3 it hath alfo two very fmali 
hind Toes, with Fins on their lower Sides 3 the Claws are broad and flat, like human 
Nails 3 the Legs are placed almod at the Extremity of the Body, and are very flat. 
This Bird was brought, preferved dry, from Greenland^ and prefented to my good 
Friend Mr. John Warner, Merchant, in Roiherhith, who finee gave it to me, in 
Order to figure and deferibe for this Hidory : It differs principally in the Head from onc^ 
of this Tribe found in England, deferibed by Willoughby in his Ornithology, p. 341, 
that having no Rednefs on the Throat. I had lately brought to me one of this Genus 
of Birds, newly taken in the River ‘Thames, and by bending the Toes forward I find, 
they will not decline above forty Degrees from the Line of the Leg, whereas to make 
the Leg perpendicular in Walking, it ought to decline ninety Degrees; fo 1 take the 
Report of their walking upright to be a Midake 3 for if the Body be upright, and the 
Legs not fo, the Feet mud dand out before the Bird, and it mud fall backward, unlefs 
it reds on the Knees or Joints of the Legs behind, v.’hich is not natural, fo that I 
imagine it mud walk in a half-ered; Pofition, as I have drawn its Figure. This Bird^ 
hath never been deferibed to my Knowledge, 
