. A history of British birds : the figures engraved on wood . dle wing coverts are thelargest, and marked more distinctly on the margins ofeach feather, near to their tips. The fore part of theneck is of an ash colour : cheeks, chin, throat, and underparts, of a glossy white : tail tipped with white : legs andtoes dusky *, webs pale. The natural habits of the Speckled Diver are muchthe same as those of the kinds before described, but itseems still more to shun the rigours of the north, andremains longer in the temperate climates. In the winterseason it keeps its route southward, and is then me
. A history of British birds : the figures engraved on wood . dle wing coverts are thelargest, and marked more distinctly on the margins ofeach feather, near to their tips. The fore part of theneck is of an ash colour : cheeks, chin, throat, and underparts, of a glossy white : tail tipped with white : legs andtoes dusky *, webs pale. The natural habits of the Speckled Diver are muchthe same as those of the kinds before described, but itseems still more to shun the rigours of the north, andremains longer in the temperate climates. In the winterseason it keeps its route southward, and is then met within the Baltic, the German ocean, and on various parts ofthe British shores. In the spring it retires northward tothe lakes of the continent, and the islands within thearftic circle, to breed and rear its young. The femalemakes her nest in the grass, near the edge of the water,and lays two eggs of a longish oval shape, larger thanthose of a Hen ; they are of a dingy stone colour, spottedwith black. The foregoing figure was done from a stuffed BRITISH BIRDS. 175
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