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PODICEPS RUBRICOLLIS. THE RED-NECKED 

 GREBE. 



GREY-CIIEEKED GREBE. 



ColjTnbus rubricoUis. Gmcl. Syst. Nat. I. 592. 



Podiceps rubricoUis.. Lath. Iiid. Ornith. II. 783. 



Red-necked Grebe. Mont. Ornith. Diet, and Supplt. 



Grebe jou-gris. Podiceps rubricoUis. Temm. Man. d'Orn. II. 720. 



Red-necked Grebe. Podiceps rubricoUis. Selby, lUust. II. 392. 



Podiceps rubricoUis. Red-necked Grebe. Jenyns, Brit. Vert. Anim. 252. 



Podiceps rubricoUis. Bonap. Comp. List, 65. 



Male about eighteen inches long, loith the hill an inch and 

 two thirds, rather stout, confipressed, black, with the base yel- 

 low ; a short transverse occipital crest, with two more elongated 

 tufts, and a slight ruff on the cheeks and fore neck ; the upper 

 parts greyish-black, the lower silt cry -white, the ruff light grey 

 edged with white, the fore part and sides of the neck rich 

 broionish-red, the sides of the body streaked with dusky, several 

 of the Older secondary quills white. Female smaller, similar 

 to the male, but with the tufts and ruff shorter. Young tcith- 

 out crest or ruff, dusky-grey above, silvery-white beneath, the 

 cheeks grey ish-v:hite, the fore neck brownish-grey; the lower 

 part of the neck and the sides of the body spotted or streaked 

 with dusky. 



Male. — The Red-necked is considerably inferior in size 

 to the Crested Grebe, from which it differs in having the bill 

 stonter and differently coloured, the body proportionally 

 shorter and broader, and in other particulars easily discovered 

 on comparing specimens or good descriptions. The bill is 

 nearly as long as the head, straight, rather stout, compressed, 

 and tapering. The upper mandible, which, as in all the 

 other species, is very flexile, has the dorsal line straight for 



