. A natural history of birds : illustrated with a hundred and one copper plates, curiously engraven from the life . -5^ y^^c Sa/z^^^nf ;^. 1! ; /Ae ^rt^af^Sen /T^. ^? rr ^^f w (69)The great Sea-Loon or T>iver. Colymbus maximus. Numb. LXXV. ITS Weight was three Pounds four Ounces; its Length from the Pointof the Bill to the End of the Claws, twenty feven Inches ; Breadthwhen the Wings were expanded, three Foot eight Inches; the Bill, fromthe Tip to the Angles of the Mouth, was two Inches three Quarters long;the Feathers invefting the whole Body were fine, foft, and thick; theHead and
. A natural history of birds : illustrated with a hundred and one copper plates, curiously engraven from the life . -5^ y^^c Sa/z^^^nf ;^. 1! ; /Ae ^rt^af^Sen /T^. ^? rr ^^f w (69)The great Sea-Loon or T>iver. Colymbus maximus. Numb. LXXV. ITS Weight was three Pounds four Ounces; its Length from the Pointof the Bill to the End of the Claws, twenty feven Inches ; Breadthwhen the Wings were expanded, three Foot eight Inches; the Bill, fromthe Tip to the Angles of the Mouth, was two Inches three Quarters long;the Feathers invefting the whole Body were fine, foft, and thick; theHead and Neck brown; the Back darker ; the Sides and lower Belly nearthe Tail dusky; the Bread and Belly of a Silver Colour. It wholly wantsthe Tail; each Wing hath about thirty Quill»Feathers, of which the out-mofl twelve are blackifh; the Tip of the thirteenth is white; and theTops of the following, in order more and more to the twentieth; afterwhich the next four are wholly white; the twenty fifth towards the Tip isbrown, and in the twenty fixth the white Ends; the lefTer Rows of Wing-Feathers underneath are white. The Bill is redifh, n
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