Colymbus

In the fall the loon (Colymbus glacialis) came, as usual, to moult and bathe in the pond, making the woods ring with his wild laughter before I had risen.

Walden 2004

In the fall the loon (_Colymbus glacialis_) came, as usual, to moult and bathe in the pond, making the woods ring with his wild laughter before I had risen.

Journeys Through Bookland, Vol. 7 Charles Herbert Sylvester

Coues thinks it is probably the Pacific diver, the commonest loon of the Northwest coast (Colymbus or Urinator pacificus).

Original journals of the Lewis and Clark Expedition, 1804-1806 1904

In the fall the loon (_Colymbus glacialis_) came, as usual, to moult and bathe in the pond, making the woods ring with his wild laughter before I had risen.

A Book of Natural History Young Folks' Library Volume XIV. Various 1891

And of the Grebes, therefore, only the one commonly known as the Dabchick, the 'Little Grebe,' 'Colymbus Minutus' (Minute Diver), of Linnæus.

Love's Meinie Three Lectures on Greek and English Birds John Ruskin 1859

No one seems to have the least idea what that means; and 'Colymbus,' diver, must be kept for the great Northern Diver and his deep-sea relatives, far removed from our little living ripple-line of the pools.

Love's Meinie Three Lectures on Greek and English Birds John Ruskin 1859

Colymbus glacialis (great Northern diver or loon), in all the lakes.

The Maine Woods 1858

In the fall the loon (Colymbus glacialis) came, as usual, to moult and bathe in the pond, making the woods ring with his wild laughter before I had risen.

Walden, or Life in the woods 1854

In the fall the loon (Colymbus glacialis) came, as usual, to moult and bathe in the pond, making the woods ring with his wild laughter before I had risen.

Walden~ Chapter 12 (historical) 1854

In the fall the loon (Colymbus glacialis) came, as usual, to moult and bathe in the pond, making the woods ring with his wild laughter before I had risen.

Walden Henry David Thoreau 1839