§§ THE NATURAL HISTORY 
‘The Black-throated Diver is frequent in the 
lakes of Siberia,. in Iceland, Greenland, and the 
-Ferroe Iflands. It is very noify juft before rain, 
_ Divers fwim, and dive fo well, that they are 
| very. difficult to be thot; for the moment they fee 
-the flafh of the gun, they plunge under water. For _ 
this reafon, thofe who go to fhoot them fit a piece 
of pafteboard to the gun, fo as to hide the flafh. 
| ‘They move under water with great eafe and 
- fwiftnefs: it is there they retire for fafety, either 
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 pe. a little fith is fixed. 
Divers build their nefts upon the water, amongft 
rufhes, and their nefts are always wet. | 
There are feveral kinds of Divers. The Speckled 
_ Diver is frequent in England. In theriverThames, 
~ the fifhermen call it the Sprat Loon, for they are 
fen. in great numbers where there are thoals Of | 
- Sprats. 
_ If any body approach the neft, the old bird im. 
mediately plunges into the water, and the young 
ones, though jut hatched, endeavour to follow 
her. 
oe fg Imber is another Bier’ Te inhabits the 
feas about the Orknies and the Ferroe Iflands, 
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