. The natural history of British birds, or, A selection of the most rare, beautiful and interesting birds which inhabit this country : the descriptions from the Systema naturae of Linnaeus : with general observations, either original or collected from the latest and most esteemed English ornithologists : and embellished with figures, drawn, engraved, and coloured from the original specimens . Troil informs us, that they alfo breed in Iceland, and that thegreater part of the young brood ftay there the whole year, frequentingthe lakes in funuiier, and in the winter removing to the fea
. The natural history of British birds, or, A selection of the most rare, beautiful and interesting birds which inhabit this country : the descriptions from the Systema naturae of Linnaeus : with general observations, either original or collected from the latest and most esteemed English ornithologists : and embellished with figures, drawn, engraved, and coloured from the original specimens . Troil informs us, that they alfo breed in Iceland, and that thegreater part of the young brood ftay there the whole year, frequentingthe lakes in funuiier, and in the winter removing to the fea ftiore. Theirhabits are the fame in America, the lakes to the fouthward aboundingwith them during the fummer, in the winter they appear upon the fea * riiUe CCXXIV. eoaft. PLATE CCXXVIII. coaft. It appears to be a vagarious bird, fpreading in fmall flocksabout the Cafpian Sea, the Euxine Sea, Greece, and Egypt, thoughthey are never known to pafs fouthvvard beyond the equator. They appear about Hudfons Bay in company with others of thegoofe tribe, about the end of May : they lay four eggs, and hatch inJuly. The eggs as well as the young birds are elleemed very palat-able food; and the Ikins dried are worn by the Indians with thefeathers and down attached, the larger feathers being plucked to formthe diadems of their chiefs, or to weave into cloaks and other articlesof cloathing. PLATE. PLATE CCXXIX. LARUS CATARACTES. SKUA GULL. Anseres. GENERIC CHARACTER. Bill ftraight^ (harp edged, a little hooked at the top and withoutteeth lower mandible gibbous below the point: noftriis linear,broader on the fore part and placed in the middle of the bill. SPECIFIC CHARACTER AND SYNONYMS. Greyifh; quill and tail feathers white at the bafe; tail fomewhatequal. Lakus Cataractes: grifefcens, reraigibufque bafi albis, candafubaequali. Gmel, Si/Ji. Nat, 603. 11.— 1. p. 226. Ind. Orn. 818. 12. Catarra6les et Catarra6la, Raii, Sj/n. p. 128. Catarra£i:es PLATE CCXXIX. Catarraftes
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