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the flanks nearly as on the breast. Rump darker, its sides above dus- 

 ky, but the downy base of the feathers pale yellowish-rufous. Bill 

 with a broad black band round its middle including the nostrils, its 

 length, measured from above, about | of an inch. Irids hazel. Legs 

 black, with a slight tinge of brown. 



In the young bird, there is oflen already a vestige of the black 

 transverse band, but the chin is nearly white. The sides, front of 

 the neck, and top of the breast, as well as the flanks, are of a light 

 chestnut-brown ; lower part of the breast more faintly tinged with the 

 same color ; the belly silvery-white tinged with a shade of brown ; 

 the vent grey. — Le Grebe de la Louisiane, Buff. Ois. viii. p. 240. PI. 

 Enlum. 943. Louisiana Gl-ebe, Penn. Arct. Zool. ii. p. 207. No. 419. 



