254 LOBE-FOOTED BIRDS. 



preceding species ; the eggs 3 or 4, of a whitish-green, and 

 appearing as if soiled with yellowish or brown. 



The length of the Red-Necked Grebe is from 17 to 18 inches. 

 Bill from the front 1^ inches ; from the rictus 2:^. Front, summit of 

 the head, and short crest, of a shining black. Cheeks and throat 

 mouse grey ; a wide black band along the nape. Fore part of the 

 neck, sides and summit of the breast bright rufous ; all the other 

 lower parts white, with the exception of the flanks and thighs, 

 which are spotted with blackish-brown. Secondaries w^hite. Base 

 of the bill yellow, the rest black. Iris reddish-brown. Feet ex- 

 tremely black, interiorly yellowish-green. 



Youn<r birds of two years of age have the throat and cheeks white j 

 upper part of the neck yellowish-white, upon these parts are scat- 

 tered zig-zag brown and blackish bands. The top of the head 

 and nape black, but without crest. Lower part of the neck and 

 summit of the breast, of a dull rufous, varied with brown ; some of 

 the feathers of the breast and the vent edged with grey. Base of 

 the bill livid yellow. Iris reddish-yellow. It is then Colymhus 

 parotis, Sparman, Mus. Carls, fasc. i. t. 9. Gmel. sp. 21. 



HORNED GREBE, or DOBCHICK. 



(Podiccps cornuhis, Lath. sp. 5. Richard. North. Zool.ii. p. 411. 

 BoNAP. Synops. No. 3GG. Temm. Man. d"Orn. ii. p. 721. CohjTn- 

 hus cornutus, GaiEL. sp. 19. Lc Petit Grebe Cornu, Burr, et Le 

 Grebe d'EscIavonie, PI. Enlum. 404. Eared or Horned Dobchick, 

 Edwards, pl. Iji5. [Hudson's Bay specimen.] Black and White 

 Dobchick, Ib. pl. 96. (anterior figure.) [young English specimen.] 

 Horned Grebe, Penn. Arct. Zool. No. 417. Dusky Grebe, Ib. 

 No. 420. [young.] Phil. Museum, No. . . .) 



Sp. Charact. — Bill shorter than the head, compressed throughout; 

 secondaries white ; 12 outer primaries entirely brown. ^dult dus- 

 ky, beneath white ; neck and breast rufous ; a broad black ruff round 

 the neck ; a long tuft of rufous feathers behind and above each 

 eye. Young pure white beneath, except the neck, the white 

 nearly meeting on the nape : no ornamental feathers. 



