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SYLBEOCYCLUS EUROP^US. THE EUROPEAN 

 DABCHICK. 



DIPPER. DIDAPPER. DOBCHICK. DABCHICK. LITTLE DOUCKER. 



Fig. 76. 



Colymbus minor. Gmel. Linn. Syst. Nat. I. 591. 

 Podiceps minor. Lath. Ind. Ornith. IL 784. Young. 

 Podiceps hebridicus. Lath. Ind. Ornith. IL 785. Adult. 

 Black-chin Grebe. Mont. Ornith. Diet, and Supplt. Adult. 

 Little Grebe. Mont. Ornith. Diet, and Supplt. Young. 

 Grebe Castagneux. Podiceps minor. Temm. Man. d' Ornith. II. 727. 

 Little Grebe. Podiceps minor. Selby, Illustr. li. 401. 

 Sylbeocyclus minor. Bonap. Comp. List, 64. 



Male about ten inches in length, with the hill ten-twelfths 

 long, stout, compressed, black, with the tips pale; head and 

 neck tuftless ; tarsus loith the piosterior scales very prominent ; 

 tipper part of the head and throat black; sides and fore p>art 

 of the neck chestnut; breast and sides of the body dusky ; 

 upper parts greenish-black ; primary quills greyish-brown, 

 most of the secondaries lohitc, unless on the outer web toicard 

 the end. Female similar to the male, but smaller. Young 

 with the lower mandible, and basal sides of the ujiper pale- 

 hrown, the upper part dusky ; the head and hind neck broicn- 

 ish-grey, the cheeks and sides of the neck pale reddish. 



