7 THE . ) 
NORTHERN DIVER. — 
JMS SSSR ee 
GENERIC CHARACTER. 
Bill strong, strait, pointed : upper mandible the 
longest; the edges of each pending in- 
wards. 
— Nostrils linear; the upper part anal) by a 

small cutaneous appendage. 
Tongue long and pointed ; serrated on each side 
- near the base. - ; 
Legs thin and flat; toes four in number, the ex- 
terior longest, the back toe very small, 
and joined to‘the interior by a small mem- 
brane. | j 
Tail short, Hea Late of twelve feathers. 
Lath. Syn. 
t SPECIFIC CHARACTER, &e. 
Glossy-black Diver with square white spots 5 
beneath white; with white collar streaked 
by black lines. e 
The Northern Diver. we et 
- Penn. Brit. Zool. 
Lath. synops. 
Greatest Speckled Diver or Loon. 
W ul. Orne 

_ This species, the largest: hitherto discovered, isan 
ie inhabitant of almost all the northern regions of Eu 
dae 
