diving under water for them, but flying and running after
them at the bottom in the fame manner as on land : how this is
effedted we are not told, but the faft is averred for true . It
makes its neft on the ground, on the banks, of hay and dried
fibres, lining it with dry oak-leaves, having a portico, or grand
entrance, of green mofs +. The eggs are five in number, white,
tinged with a fine blulh of red. It is met with in many parts of
Europe, even the more northern J, as the cold alone will not
make it defert its ufual haunts; nothing lefs than.the ftreams
being frozen up.
Lev. Muf.
T ESS than a Blackbird: length eight inches. Bill one inch long,
and of a lead-colour : plumage in general black : rump and
tail white, except the ends of the two middle feathers, which are
black for an inch and a half, and of all the others for about
half an. inch: the-thighs are alfo white: legs and claws yel-
lowifh.
Inhabits Gibraltar.
* Hip. det oif.— Decouv. Ruff. vol. i- p. 307, 3' 4-— Kramer, &c. This laft
author mentions, that one of them had been .caught under water by means of a
line and hook, which had been baited to catch fiih.
f Br. Zool.
t Met with at Kamtfchatka. Ellis's Narr. vol. ii. p. 43*
51-
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