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The Black-throated Diver, or Lumme, vats 
very aukwardly upon the land, but it very feldone 
comes afhore. ‘The neft of this {pecies is rarely 
feen: fome have thought that it.hatches its eggs 
under its wing, but this is not likely. The - 
back is black, with little fquares of white : it has 
—athick down upon its‘fkin, like the Swan: and 
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the Laplanders and inhabitants of Sweden drefs 
their fkins, » and make gun- -cafes and winter-caps 
: of them. Thefe Divers are remarkably fond of — 
their young : when they are able to leave the nett, 
both the parents take them to the water; one 
flies above, to guard them from birds of prey, 
and the other below, to receive the young in-café - 
| oftheir falling. If, notwithftanding this care, the 
Kittle 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 fo little food, are Srna’ : 
watching for birds, 
‘They take great pains to teach heii young to 
— {wim and to dive; they carry them fometimes in - 
their beak from Ge to rock, and they defend 
them from birds of prey, under their wings, as a 
her does her chickens, 
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