5oo EAREDGREBE. Class II. 



224. Eared. Eared dobchick. Ed-w. av. Norvegis Sav-Orre, Soe-Orre. 



96. Jig. 2. Bornholmis Soe-Hoene. If- 



La Grebe a Oreilles. BriJ/bn landis Flauefkitt. Brunnicb, 



av. VI. 5.).. 136. 



Colymbus auritus. Lin. Jyji. Br. Zool. 133. 



223. Scopoli, No. 100. 



Descr 



IP# '"T -V HE length of this fpecies to the rump is one 

 foot •, the extent twenty-two inches : the bill 

 black, flender and very (lightly recurvated : the i- 

 rides crimfon : the head and neck are black •, the 

 throat fpotted with white : the whole upper fide 

 of a blackifh brown, except the ridge of the wing 

 about the firft joint, and the fecondary feathers, 

 which are white: the bread, belly, and inner 

 coverts of the wings are white : the fubaxillary fea- 

 thers, and fome on the fide of the rump, furrugi- 

 nous : behind the eyes, on each fide, is a tuft of 

 long loofe ruft colored feathers, hanging back- 

 wards : the legs of a duiky green. 



Thefe birds inhabit the fens near Spalding, where 

 they breed. I have feen both male and female, but 

 could not obferve any external difference. They 

 make their neft not unlike that of the crefted grebe ; 

 and lay four or five fmall white eggs. 



The 



