. A natural history of birds : illustrated with a hundred and one copper plates, curiously engraven from the life . -.,^:/^f::! ^K^rJft £/^ .yt^in-afe/en. CAamn^ryTJ ■ .^atceitz dc 7^/ ■ 2 <?/. Cre-M^i^Zffzm- orDiv^r, The Crefied Diver, Colymbus criftatus. ^Z^- Numb. LXXXI. TS Length from the Tip of the Bill to the end of theClaws is twenty four Inches; Breadth thirty three In-ches ; Weight two Pound ^\q Ounces and a half. The Bill is two Inches and a quarter long, both Man-dibles where it joins to the Head tinctured with a redifhColour ; theCreft black, beneath redifli
. A natural history of birds : illustrated with a hundred and one copper plates, curiously engraven from the life . -.,^:/^f::! ^K^rJft £/^ .yt^in-afe/en. CAamn^ryTJ ■ .^atceitz dc 7^/ ■ 2 <?/. Cre-M^i^Zffzm- orDiv^r, The Crefied Diver, Colymbus criftatus. ^Z^- Numb. LXXXI. TS Length from the Tip of the Bill to the end of theClaws is twenty four Inches; Breadth thirty three In-ches ; Weight two Pound ^\q Ounces and a half. The Bill is two Inches and a quarter long, both Man-dibles where it joins to the Head tinctured with a redifhColour ; theCreft black, beneath redifli brown, ending in afaint cinereous white towards the Eyes; the upper Part ofthe Neck is adorned with a Ruff or Collar of Feathers Teem-ing much bigger than what it is, ending in black; the backPart of the Neck, Back and Wings are of a dark brown in-clining to black, excepting fome of the exterior Edges ofthe quill Feathers which are white. The Breaft and Belly are of a whitilli alh Colour, and thelower part brown; it hath no Tail at all; the Legs broadand flat, and the Toes are broad bordered on each Side withappendent Membranes, but not webd together, of a palegreen Colour, clouded in fome places with a redif
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