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the front to the tips 1^ inches; irides reddish brown ; legs and 

 feet black, internally yellowish green ; eggs 3 to 4 whitish green? 

 soiled with yellowish brown. 



Adult with the cheeks and throat ash colour, neck and breast 

 rufous ; crown and nape with a narrow black space, a short occi- 

 pital black crest, but no ruff; front black; secondaries white ; 

 young duller coloured and spotted ; no occipital crest ; cheeks 

 and throat white, the former striped with black. This bird will 

 likely be found in this district, but I have not hitherto met with 

 it. 



P. Carolinensis. Red bill Dobchick or Grebe. 

 Colymhus podiceps of Gmelin ! 

 Colymbus Ludovicianus of Catesby ! 



V. 9. p. Bill pale with a black band across the centre including 

 the nostrils ; legs and feet blackish brown ; irides hazel ; eggs un- 

 known. 



Dorsal aspect. Crown of head and nape of neck blackish ash 

 colour mixed with cinereous ; dorsal region, rump, and scapular 

 olive brown ; great and small wing coverts, primaries and outer 

 vanes of secondaries brown; inner vanes of secondaries white; 

 cheeks and sides of the neck ashy. 



Ventral aspect. Chin and orbicular space down the throat jet 

 black ; the remainder of the throat, its sides, and the cheeks as 

 far as the nuchal region cinereous mixed with white ; breast and 

 its sides blackish brown, the feathers broadly tipped with soiled 

 yellow ; belly and sides glossy white, internally cinereous ; the 

 latter colour visible through the white vent and flanks, glossy 

 blackish brown. 



2nd primary longest ; 1st shorter than the 3rd but longer than 

 the 4th ; length 13^ inches ; alar expanse 16^ inches ; length of 

 bill from the angle of the mouth 1 J inch. In the young bird the 

 transversal band of the bill is obsolete or at most very faintly de- 

 lineated ; the chin is white, the breast and flanks light chesnut 

 brown, and the belly silvery white tinged with brown. The inner 

 and middle toes of the bird are connected beyond the first articu- 

 lation, and the outer and middle toes are subequal in length. 



Subgenus Colymhus. 

 Sub gen. char. Bill longer than the head, stout, straight, sub- 

 cylindrical, compressed, with a subulate tip ; nostrils basal, lateral, 

 oblong, semiclosed by a membrane ; feet placed far back ; tarsus 



