139 
Clafs II.] B I 
In winter it is faid to change to white. The tail 
confifts of twelve feathers : the legs are red. 
Thefe birds are found on the Bafs-ifle in 
Scotland j in the ifle of St. Kilda ; and, as Mr. 
D S. 
Ray imagines, in the Farn-iflands off the coaft of 
Northumberland. It vifits St. Kilda’’s in March: 
makes it neft far under ground ; and lays a grey 
egg : it is never feen but in the night ; being all 
day either on its neft or fifhing. 
Q E N U S XII. DIVERS. 
SPECIES I. The great Northern Diver. Plate 1 $ 2. 
Clufius’s IVil. orn. 342. 
Raii fyn. av. 125. 
Mergus maximus Farrenfis, five Arc* 
ticus. Clufius exot. 102. 
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f~~Tj T H E length of this fpecies is three feet 
H five inches : its breadth four feet eight: 
the bill to the corners of the mouth four 
inches long ; black, and ftrongly made. The 
head and neck are of a deep black : the hind part 
of the latter is marked with a large femilunar 
white band : immediately under the throat is an¬ 
other ; both marked with black oblong ftrokes 
pointing down : the lower part of the neck is of 
h deep black, globed with a rich purple : the 
whole under fide of the body is white : the fides 
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of the bread marked with black lines : the back. 
Colymbus maximus ftellatus noftras. 
Sib. hift. Scot. 20. Tab. 15. 
Mergus major noevius. Briffon av. 
VI. 120. Tab. 11. Fig. 1. 
coverts of the wings, and fcapulars, are black, 
marked with white fpots : thofe on the fcapulars 
are very large, and of a fquare lhape ; two at the 
end of each feather. The tail is very iliort, and 
almoft concealed by the coverts, which are dufky 
fpotted with white : the legs are black. Thefe 
birds inhabite the northern parts of this ifland, 
live chiefly at fea, and feed on fifh : we do not 
know whether they breed with us, as they do in 
■Norway ; which has many birds in common with 
Scotland. 
SPECIES II. The grey fpeckled Diver. Plate % *. 
Greateft fpeckled Diver, or Loon. 
Wit. orn. 341. 
Raii fyn. av. 125. 
H I S fpecies weighs two pounds and a 
half: its length twentv-feven inches : 
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its breadth three feet nine. The bill 
three inches long, and turns a little upwards 5 the 
mandibles, when clofed at the points, do not 
touch at the fides. The head is of a dufky grey, 
marked with numerous white fpots: the hind 
part of the neck a uniform grey : the whole up¬ 
per part of the body, and greater coverts of the 
wings dufky, fpeckled with white : the lefier co¬ 
verts dufky, and plain. The tail confifts of about 
Mergus minor. Briffon av. VI. io8* 
Tab. 10. Fig. 2. 
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twenty black feathers ; in feme tipt with white. 
The cheeks, and whole under fide of the body of 
a fine gloffy white : and the feathers as in all this 
genus, which refides almoft perpetually on the 
water, are exceffively thick, and clofe fet : the 
legs are dufky. 
Thefe birds frequent our feas and lakes in the 
winter. They are fubjedf to vary in the difpofition 
and form of their foots and colors : fome bavino- 
1 £) 
their necks furrounded with a fpeckled ring : in 
fome the fpots are round, in others oblong. 
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