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COLYMBUS ARCTICUS, 
‘The Black-throated Diver, cr Lumme, walks 
very aukwardly upon the land, but it very feldom 
comes afhore. ‘The neft of this fpecies is rarely 
fen: fome have thought that it hatches its eggs 
under its wing, but. this is not likely. “The 
back is black, with little {quares of white: it has 
a thick down upon its fkin, like the Swan: and 
the Laplanders aud jnhabitants of Sweden drefs 
their fkins, and make gun.-cafes and winter-caps 
ofthem. ‘Thefe Divers are remarkably fond of 
their young : when they are able to leave the neft, 
both the parents take them to the water; one 
fies above, to guard them from birds of prey, 
and the other below, to receive the young in cafe 
oftheir falling. If, notwithftanding this care, the 
little ones fhould drop upon the land, the old ones 
do not forfake them, but rather rifque the being 
devoured by Foxes, which in thofe cold countries, 
‘where they have f6 little food, are conftantly 
watching for birds. 
- They take great pains to teach their young to 
fwim and to dive ; they carry them fometimes in 
their beak from rock to rock, and they defend 
them from birds of prey, under their wings, as a 
hen does her chickens. . 
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