44 ^ Hijlory of A N 1 M A L 3. 
kind, not yet fledged or feathered: the head is fmall, and is fomewhat depreffed on 
the crown : the eyes are large, and very piercing in their afpe£t the beak is about 
half an inch in length j it is larged at the bafe, and from thence all the way fmaller 
to the extremity, where it is pointed, and it is flatted all along at the fides: the upper 
chap is black, but the tips and the Tides of it are, for a little breadth, of a pale or 
whidfh yellow : the whole under chap alfo is of this pale or whitifh yellow : the noftrils 
are confpicuous, and hand at a little didance below the plumage that inverts^the bafe 
of the beak : the tongue is long, and bifid at the end; and the iris of the eye is 
hazel. 
The plumage of this bird is very thick and foft, and at any diftance it has more the 
appearance of a downy or woolly matter, than of feathers • the back, fhoulders, and 
upper part of the wings are of an extreamly deep olive colour, approaching to black, 
and in many lights appearing quite black : the belly and bread; are of an elegant fil- 
very white ; the very lowed: part of the belly is brown, and there is fome reddifh- 
brown along the fides of the throat : the feathers which cover the thighs have alfo a 
little brown on them : the neck is long, in proportion to the fize of the bird. 
The wings are extreamly fhort and hollowed : the large feathers are twenty-fix in 
each, and are fome of them altogether brown, and others variegated with brown and 
white. This bird is Angular, in that it has absolutely no tail: the glands found in the 
rumps of other fowls, however, are not wanting in this in their due place, and there 
arifes a tuft of feathers from them, as in the other birds. 
The legs are very fhort, and Hand fo extreamly backward, that, though very ufeful 
to the bird in fwimming, it can hardly walk at all; when on land, it feems to Hand 
ered upon the rump: they are robuft, of a greenifh-black colour, and of a flatted 
form, and naturally bend backwards: the toes are long, and are armed at their extre¬ 
mities with broad and fhort claws, much refembling the nails of a human hand: each 
toe is alfo increafed in breadth, by a membrane on each fide; but the feet are not 
webbed, or the membrane not connected. 
This is very frequent about our rivers and ponds, and is the moft nimble diver of 
all the water fowls. All the writers on birds have defcribed it. Gefner calls it Tra- 
pazoroja five Mergufus ; Aldrovand, Colymbus minor ; Willughby and Ray, Colym- 
bus five Podiceps minor. It builds with us among fedge and rufhes, and lays four or 
five moderately large eggs. We call it by feveral names, expreflive of it’s diving * 
the Didapper, the Dipper, the Dobchick, the Douker, and the leffer Loon } fome 3 
from the fituation of it’s legs, the Arfe-foot. 
Colymbus pedibus tridaElylis palmatis . 
!The Colymbus , with webbed feet, and three toes to each , 
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turtle. 
This is of the bignefs of a large tame pigeon, and is fuppofed, though not very 
judicioufly, to refemble it in fome degree in figure: the head is large, comprefled at 
the fides, and a little flatted on the crown : the eyes are large, and their iris of a bright 
hazel: the beak is about three quarters of an inch long, and is fhaped fomewhat like 
that of the common hen, but broader at the bafe, and more comprefled at the fides 5 
it is (harp at the point, and all over of a deep black colour: the head and neck, as 
alfo the fhoulders and back,’ and the generality of the upper furface of the wings alfo, 
is black; the breaft, belly, and throat are white. 
The wings are fhort, but they are very well feathered j the remiges or long feathers 
are all of them black, but the covering or fhorter feathers are white, and thence there 
appears a large white fpot on each of the wings: the breaft and belly of the male, in 
this fpecies, are of a deep colour, approaching to the black of the back, fo that, in 
that fex, the whole bird is black, excepting for the white fpot on each of the wings. 
The legs are moderately long, and fomewhat robuft j they are of a bright and ele¬ 
gant red colour, and the toes are moderately long'; they are only three on each foot, 
and 
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