49 6 TIPPET GREBE. Class I!. 



XXXVIII. BILL (Irons, ftrait, (harp pointed. 

 GREBE *. — A „ 



TAIL, none. 



LEGS flat, thin, and ferrated behind with a 



double row of notches. 



222. Tippet. Colymbus major. Ccfner av, Raii fyn. a-v. 125. 



^g* Colymbus, la Grebe. BriJJon 

 Aldr. OV. III. 104. a-v. VI. 34. tab. 3. fig. I. 



Greater Loon, or Arsfoot. Colymbus urinator Lin.fyfi. 



WiL orn. 339. 223 Scopoli, No. 102. 



Greater Dobchick. Ed-vj.av. Br. Zool. 133. 



360. fig. 2. 



THIS differs from the great crefted Grebe in 

 being rather lefs, and wanting the creft and 

 ruff. The fides of the neck are ftriped downwards 

 from the head with narrow lines of black and 

 white : in other refpects the colors and marks agree 

 with that bird. 



This fpecies has been (hot on Rofteme Mere in 

 Chejbire; is rather fcarce in England, but is com- 

 mon in the winter time on the lake of Geneva. 

 They appear there in flocks of ten or twelve : and 

 are killed for the fake of their beautiful (kins. 



* The Grebes and Divers are placed in the fame genus,' 

 i. e. of Colymbi, by Mr. Ray and Linnseus ; but the difference 

 of the feet, forbade our judicious friend, M. Briffon t from 

 continuing them together ; whofe example we have followed. 



The 



