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PODICEPS CRISTATUS. THE CRESTED GREBE. 



GREATER CRESTED GREBE. TIPPET GREBE. CRESTED DUCKER. GAUNT. 

 CARGOOSE. 



Colymbus cristatus. Linn. Syst. Nat. I. 222. 



Colymbus Urinator. Linn. Syst. Nat. I. 223. Young. 



Todiceps cristatus. Lath. Ind. Ornith. II. 780. 



Crested Grebe. Mont. Ornith. Diet. 



Grebe buppe. Podiceps cristatus. Temm. Man. d'Ornith. II. 717. 



Crested Grebe. Podiceps cristatus. Selby, Illustr. II. 394. 



Podiceps cristatus. Great Crested Grebe. Jen. Brit. Yert. Anim. 25L 



Podiceps cristatus. Bonap. Comp. List, 65. 



Male about twenty-four inches in length, with the bill two 

 i)iches long, slender, compressed, carmine, the ridge dusky, the 

 tips yelloicisli-grey ; a transverse occipital crest, zvith two more 

 elongated tufts, and a large ruff on the cheeks and fore neck ; 

 the upper parts greyish-black, the loiver silvery-ivhite, the ruff 

 light red anteriorly, black behind, the sides of the body reddish- 

 brown, most of the secondary quills, the humerals, and anterior 

 edge of the wing white. Female smaller, similar to the male, 

 but with the tufts and ruff' sliorter. Young without crest or 

 riff, dusky-grey above, silvery-white beneath, icith the sides 

 dusky, and the icings as in the adult. In the second year with 

 the crest and ruff distinct, but short. 



Male. — The Crested Grebe, ■which is the Lirgcst species 

 of its genus, has the body of an elongated elliptical form, 

 much depressed ; the neck long and slender ; the head rather 

 small, oblong, and compressed. The bill is about the length 

 of the head, straight, slender, compressed, and tapering. The 

 upper mandible, -which is possessed of very considerable 

 mobility, has the dorsal line almost straight, slightly decli- 

 nate and convex toward the tip, the ridge convex, as are the 



