. A history of British birds, indigenous and migratory: including their organization, habits, and relation; remarks on classification and nomenclature; an account of the principal organs of birds, and observations relative to practical ornithology .. . narrow; claws small,convex above, rounded; wings short, narrow, pointed ; tailextremely short, rounded, of about twenty fcatheis. 1. Cohjmbus glaciaUs. Northern or Ring-ncckcd three feet long; head and neck deep bluish-green,glossed with purple; a patch on the throat and a broadring, incomjdete in front, on the neck, white, longitudin
. A history of British birds, indigenous and migratory: including their organization, habits, and relation; remarks on classification and nomenclature; an account of the principal organs of birds, and observations relative to practical ornithology .. . narrow; claws small,convex above, rounded; wings short, narrow, pointed ; tailextremely short, rounded, of about twenty fcatheis. 1. Cohjmbus glaciaUs. Northern or Ring-ncckcd three feet long; head and neck deep bluish-green,glossed with purple; a patch on the throat and a broadring, incomjdete in front, on the neck, white, longitudinallystreaked with black. 2. Cohjmbus arrticus. Black-throated Loon. About tA\ ofeet eight inches long ; upper part of head and hind-necklight grey ; fore-neck puri)lish-black. 8. Cohjmbus srptenfrionohs. lied-throated Loon. Abouttwo feet live inches long; sides of the head bluish-grey;upper part of the head grey, with small dark s])ots ; nape,hind and lower parts of neck, streaked with black andwhite ; fore-neck with a broad longitudinal band of deeporaniie-red. 283 COLYMBUS GLACIALIS. THE RING-NECKEDLOON. GREAT DlVKll. GREATEST SPECKLED DIVER. IMMER, EJIMER,OR GOOSE. GUNNER. MUR-BIIUACUAILL, OR SEA-HEKDS-MAN. Fig. 78. Colymbus glacialis. Linn. Syst. Nat. I. 221. Adult. C\>lymbus Immcr. Linn. Syst. Nat. L 222. Young. Colymbus glacialis. Lath. Ind. Ornith. XL 790. Adult. Colymbus Immcr. Lath. Ind. Ornith. II. 800. Northern Diver. Mont. Ornith. Diet, and Supplt. riongeon Imbrim. Colymbus glacialis. Tcmm. Man. dOrnith. II. 910. Northern Diver. Colymbus glacialis. Sclby, Illuslr. II. 406. Colymbus glacialis. Jenyns. Brit. Vert. Anim. 255. Colymbus glacialis. Bonap. Comp. List. 65. Adult about three feet loiuj ; with the hill black, almoststraight, three inches in length along the ridge, an inch inheight at the base, with the sides flattened, the base of the 284 COLYMBUS GLACIALIS. loiccr mandible icith a ridge and several strue, the edges litt
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