GREBES AND ALLIED SPECIES. 245 



gined ; anterior toes long, obliquely flattened, the outer 

 longest, all with lateral expansions, and connected at the base 

 by webs ; claws small, depressed ; wings small, with eleven 

 small primaries ; tail a slight tuft of minute downy feathers ; 

 head and neck tuftless. 



1. Sylbeocychis EurojJcBus. European Dahchick. About 

 ten inches in length ; the bill ten- twelfths long, black, Avith 

 the tips pale ; head and neck without tuft or ruiF. 



