1. roDiciPEs. 533 



ST^mhl'''' P- ''' ^''''''''^' G'^i^<^> Heligoland, Engl. 

 Podiceps nigncoUis, Brehm, Handb. Vo,,. DeutscM. p. 963 (1831) • 



Sr'7T]-Jvf"'1' f '^,1«68, p. 457 [Portugal]' ; SharpeyzS. 



i 313 1?7-?. ^'f 'f/^- Vi--P-^3(18'1) ; -^7..//^^,^.^^^;,^, 

 p. old (XH/ J) ! tritsch, J. f. O 187-^ n "^Ts n? ,i, . • n >^ y.y/'"'> 



fv p i36Tn873?.'T'"/ i^,;.^^(lf ^); ^-.^/'- 0.«.^iV.O-^/? 



IV. p. idbi (lb/3); Brooke, Ibis, 1873. id 349 rSn-fllM^nl . c^.-^^a 



n ' ^' ;! Lf ransylvamaj ; W7,«/-fo«, 7^4-, 1876, p. 29 fCorsical • 



David ^OustalOis. Chine, p. .513 (1877); Dreiser B EuroJe 

 T ^'- ^'n' Pl- "3:^ (1878); Bufler, Cat. B.'sind,^?? fS)- 

 5«e«^. 0;v..^V«,p.528 (1881); Seebohm, Ibis! 1882, ..Ul 

 [Astrakan] p. 369 [Japan] ; Irbi/, Ibis, 1883. p. 190 [San aSder • 



f'lt- B. IV p. 1.33 1884 ; Tnstr. Surv. W. Pale.'^t p ^39^Rfii^: 

 fS^^olun,msLBrit B iiL p. 46.5 (1885) ; i?«?/ LflsS p 'A' 

 [Morocco]; ^A*^eW, 76,., 1885, p. 46 [Corsica]; 7}«///r;,r. 

 ^Jf'''%2Tl}^'^-^^ P- 556 [Austro-Ilungary],^ 1887, p 345 



]!lhl &^aT\^- ^^\^.{^ootk,iiouffk i-iw, k ?t. S 



i iS'n ^^1 ^'■?^- /'«;-. P-/54 (1886); r.c/.«./, 0,v»-., 1886, 

 ?oi'^ Lioc=il names]; 6V-o«rZ«/, 0/-««, 1886, p. .368 flcelandl 

 18b/, p. 091 ; Taif, Ibis, 1887, p. 400 [Portuga ] ■ ^YetrTmlm' 

 Zeit. yes. Orn. iv. p. 398 (1887); Gigl. Amf.Ital \ v 668 (iS 

 up. 659 (1890), iii. p. 515 (1891 ; d^ebohm, Bjap. 1 30b7l890) ! 

 Hoar^ckeJ.f. 1891. p. 194; Dresser, Ibis, ]891,^p. 370 [Se-' 

 room] ; Evans Ibis, 1891, p. 82 [incubation lasts 21-24 dayi^Za 



niuk^^' i ^^^'Vo''^^' ^'^>'"^^' Col. Fi(j. :Brit. B. pt xxv 



.f ;.l'^tsri;^"p.'?S,?Bl,^t ^-^'""^ ''''"''■• ^'■"- ^"'-"'■"' 



Podiceps recurviro8tris, Brehm, Vo,jelfang, p. 402 (1855). 

 Dytes uigncolhs, Ridgw. Bull. U.S. Xat. Mas. xxi. p. 55 (1881) 

 Podiceps cornutus ,S-ee6./,.« (nee Gniel.), Ibis, 1883, p. 36 [Caucasus]. 

 Podicipes auritus, Cones, Key N. Amer. B. 2nd ed. p 796 (1884^ 

 Oolymbus nigncollis, Eidyw. Man. N. Am. B. p. 6 (1887) 

 Podicipes nigncollis, Saunders, III. Man. Brit. B. p. 707 (1889) ■ 

 M. Ucc. Hal. p. 302 (1887) ; Blanf. Faun. Brit^Ind.-J^lk 



Proctopus nigricollis, 8harpe, Handb. B. Gr. Brit. iy. p. 204 



Adultin hreedinri-plumage. General colour aboyc, including the 

 head and neck black with a slight greyish gloss: superdliarv 

 feathers, as well as those coyering the hinder part of the cheeks 

 and ear-coverts, elongate and hair-like, the former straw-coloured, 

 the two latter chestnut ; base of the fore-neck, sides and flanks 

 chestnut : the chest and rest of the uuderparts pure white ; outer 

 primaries ash-brown, obliquely white on the basal portion of the 



