Female.
Place and
Manners.
the breadth four feet eight inches. The bill is four inches and a?
half long, and black: the head and neck of a deep velvety black :
under the chin is a patch of white, marked with feveral parallel
lines of black: on each fide of the neck a large portion of the-
fame, elegantly marked with black lines, like the fird, almoft
uniting at the back part: fides of the bread marked in the fame-
manner, but the lines not fo numerous-: the hind part of the
neck, back, wing coverts, and fcapulars, are black, marked with,
round fpots of white, which grow larger as they are farthefl
downwards; and on the fcapulars, and part of the larger coverts,
the fpots are of a fquare form, and placed in rows : the quills,
and tail are black the wings are Ihort: the bread and under
parts white f legs black,
Thz female is lefs; and in her the ring on the neck is 1 e 1 is
diftinft. In young birds alfo the plumage does not ieem foon to-
come to perfection, even when of a confiderable fize; hence we-
fufpeft that the bird does not arrive at perfeftion till the fecond
year at lead.
This fpecies inhabits-feveral parts of the North of Europe, bur
is not very frequent oh our Ihores; nor ever feen fouthward, except
in very fevere winters. Seldom met with on land *, being:
for the mod part on the open fea, where it is continually diving,
far fjh , which it does with great .agility,and dies high and well..
Is common in Iceland and'; Greenlandf,. where it breeds, and at
• One of tfcefe was caught alive near Ktfimck, in Cumberland, in July, 1781.
It was, as is fuppofed, making for the lake, but grew tired before it had power
to reach it. Dr. Hiyjbam.— Willugbiy mentions one being taken in ,the ifland
of ^Brfey.
t Ahfo at Spiijbergen-.—Pbjjrps’s 'Kvy, p, 1-87,
7 that;
that time frequents the frefii waters. Is fufiiciently plentiful in
Norway, and all along the ArElic coads, as far as the river Ob,
in the Ruffian dominions. The Barabinzians, a nation fituated
between that river and the Irtifch, tan the breads of this and
other water-fowl j whofe fkins they prepare in fuch a manner as
to preferve the down upon them; and, fewing a number of them
together, their hulbands fell them, to make pellices, caps, & c.
Garments made of thefe are very warm, never imbibing the
lead moidure; and are more lading than could be imagined *.
Met with alfo among the lakes of Hudfon's Bay.
The female lays two large pale brown or done-coloured eggs,
in June. Changes place according to the feafon. Found at
times at New Tork. The natives of Greenland ufe the fkins for
eloathing; and the Indians about Hudfon’s Bay adorn their heads
with circlets of their feathers f . At the lad place it is known
by the name of Athinue-moqua. As they are feldom feen on the
fea-coafts, but chiefly among the lakes, they are called by the
Indians, Inland Loons J.
* RuJJia, vol. ii. p. 234.—The downy fide worn outwards. Id. vol. iii. p. 21.
f Arft. Zool, J Mr. Hutchins.
X X 2 Colymbus