‘$6 THE NATURAL HISTORY 
The Black-throated Diver is frequent in th 
lakes of Siberia, in Iceland, Greenland, and the 
Ferroe Iflands. It is very noify juft before rain, 
Divers {wim, and dive fo well, that they ap 
very difficult to be fhot; for the moment they fey 
the flath of the gun, they plunge under water. Fy 
this reafon, thofe who go to fhoot them fit a Diece 
of pafteboard to the gun, fo as to hide the flath, 
They move under water with great cafe anj 
{wiftnefs: it is there they retire for fafety, eithe 
from the gun of the fowler, or from birds of prey, 
But even there they are not fafe from the Con 
trivance of man ; for they are frequently Caught 
by hooks, to which a little fith js fixed, 
Divers build their nefts upon the water, amongit 
rufhes, and their nefts are always wet. 4 
There are feveral kinds of Divers. The Speckled 
_ Diver is frequent in England. Inthe river Thames, 
"the fifhermen call it the Sprat Loon, for they are 
feen in great numbers where there are fthoals of 
Sprats.. © <a 
If any body approach the neft, the old bird im- 
mediately plunges into the water, and the young 
ones, though juft hatched, endeavour to follow. 
her. 
The Imber is another Diver. It inhabits the 
_ feas about the Orknies and the Ferroe Iflands, 
and 

