256 LOBE-FOOTED BIRDS. 



ish-black. A broad bufF-orange eye band, which is reddish before 

 the eye and on the side of the nape. Back of the neck, dorsal plu- 

 mage, and wings, blackish-brown : the secondaries white. Under sur- 

 face and sides of the neck, sides of the breast, the flanks and thighs, 

 reddish-orange ; vent greyish : the rest of the under plumage shin- 

 ing yellowish-white. Orbits and rictus, lake-red. Bill bluish-black, 

 the tip white. Irids red. Legs brownish, paler interiorly. Plu- 

 mage of the sides of the head and nape lengthened so as to form a 

 lateral ruff". The colored eye-band forms the upper margin of the 

 ruff. Nail of the middle toe finely pectinated. — The young are 

 without the horned eye-band and reddish-orange plumage, having 

 the throat and sides of the head below the eye, and a spot on the 

 lores white ; fore part of the neck ash-colored. In the European 

 bird, the eye appears to have, as it were, a double iris, the outer 

 being yellow, and the inner circle bright red. In the young, the 

 outer circle is white, the inner pale red. In our bird the iris is 

 simply of a bright salmon-red. — Podiceps ohscurus, et caspicus, Lath. 

 sp. 4. [the young.] Colyvihus nigricans, Scop. Ann. i. No. 101. 

 Eared Grebe, Lath. var. ^. [a bird of the age of two years.] 



EARED DOBCHICK, or GREBE 



(Podiceps auritus, Lath, sp 3. Cohjmhus aurituSj Gmel. sp. 8. 

 Eared Dobchick, Edwards, Glean, t. 96. fig. 2. [a correct figure.] 

 Mever, Tasschenb. Deut. ii. p. 435. Naum. Vog. t. 70. fig. 108. 

 Colymbo suasso turco, Stor. degl. Ucc. v. t. 520. [adult.]) 



Sp. Charact. — Bill shorter than the head, about 8 lines long from 

 the front, depressed at base, somewhat recurved at the point, 

 black : secondaries white ; inner primaries white on the inner 



vanes. ^didt blackish, beneath white; neck, breast, crest, and 



very short ruff, black ; a long slender tuft of reddish feathers 

 behind and beneath each eye, covering the ears. Young pure 

 white beneath, on the cheeks and sides of the neck, this color 

 extending but little on the hind head : no ornamental feathers. 



As this species is very common to the north of the old continent, 

 it will probably be found in America. It is abundant upon the riv- 

 ers and fresh- water lakes, near the sea coasts in Europe, particularly 

 in Germany, France and Switzerland. 



