1. poDicipjis. 535 



c'. 2 aJ. sk. Corea. C. W. Uampbell, Esq. 



^-f- d ? ad. sk. Hakodadi, Japan, Jan.- Seebohm Coll. 



A-pril (T.B/akifiton). 



ff'-s'. Ad. et imm. Yokohama, wiuter-sum- Seebohm Coll. 



sk. mer (H. Piyer). 



t'-tv'. S 2 ad. sk. Nag-asaki, Dec. 1 2. F. Ringer, Esq. [P.]. 



x'. <S ad. sk. Nagasaki, Dec. 10 {F. Capt. T. Blakiston 



Ringer). [P.]. 



14. Podicipes californicus. 



Eared Dobchick or Grebe, Nutt. Man. Orn. p. 256 (1834). 

 Podiceps auritus, Aud. (nee Linn.) Orn. Biogr. v. p. 108, pi. 404 



(1839) ; id. B. Amer. vii. p. 322, pi. 482 (1844) ; Baird, B. N. Amer. 



p. 897 (i860) ; Ross, Nat. Hist. Rev. 1862, p. 290 [Mackenzie R.] ; 



Stejn. Auk, ii. p. 340 (1885). 

 Podiceps californicus, Heerm. P. Ac. Philad. \i\. p. 179 (1854) 



[California]; Neicberry, Rep. E.rj}/. St/rv. vi. pt. iv. p. 110 (1857) 



[California ; Oregon] ; Heerm. P. R. R. Rep. x. p. 76, pi. 8 (1859) ; 



Baird, B. X. Amer. p. 896 (1860) ; Cooper ^- Sucki. N. H. Wash. 



Terr. p. 282, pi. 8 (1860) ; Coues, Proc. Ac. Philad. 1862, p. 231, 



1866, p. 100 [Arizona] ; Sclater, P. Z. S. 1864, p. 179 [near City 



of Mexico] ; Dresser, Ibis, 1866, p. 46 [S. Texas] ; Salvin, Ibis, 



1866, p. 200 [Dueiias] ; Elliot, B. N. Amer. ii. pi. kiv. (1869) ; 



Stevenson, Prelim. Rep. U.S. Geol. Surv. Terr. p. 466 (1871) 



[Platte R., AVyoming]. 

 Podiceps aiuitus, var. californicus, Coues, Key N. Amer. B. p. 337 



(1872) ; id. B. N.- West, p. 733 (1874) ; Ridyio. Ann. Lye. X. York, 



X. p. 392 (1874) [Illinois] ; Henshaw, Am. Xat. viii. p." 243 (1874j 



[S. Colorado] ; Snow, Am. Nat. viii. p. 757 (1874) [Kansas] ; id. 



Cat. B. Kansas, ed. 3, p. 14 (1875) ; Scott, Bull. Nutt. Orn. C. iv. 



p. 96 (1879) [Colorado]. 

 Dytes nigricoUis californicus, Ridgiv. Bull. U.S. Nat. Mus. xxi. p. 55 



(1881) ; Goss, Auk, i. p. 18 (1884) [habits] ; id. Ornith. ^- Oolog. 



viii. p. 2 [breeding habits] ; Agersb. Auk, ii. p. 289 (1885) [S.E. 



Dakota]. 

 Podicipes auritus californicus, Allen ^- Breiost. Bull. Nutt. Orn. C 



viii. p. 198 (1883) [Colorado] ; Coues, Key N. Amer. B. 2nd ed. 



p. 796 (1884). 

 Colynabus nigricoUis californicus, Baird, Breiu. S,- Ridgiv. Water-B. 



N. Amer. ii. p. 434 (1884) ; A. O. U. Check-!, p. 74 (1886) ; Ever- 



mann, Auk, iii. p. 88 (1886) [Ventura Co., Cal.] ; Seton, Auk, iii. 



p. 147 (1886) [VV. Manitoba]: Ridgw. Alan. N. Am. B. p. 6 



(1887) ; Mearns, Auk, vii. p. 50 (1890) [Arizona] ; Hatch, B. 



Minnesota, p. 8 (1892); Mclhcraith, B. Ontario, ed. 2, p. 27 (1894) ; 



Thome, Auk, xii. p. 212 (1895) [Montana]. 

 Colymbus nigricoUis, Anthony, Auk, iii. p. 163 (1886) [Oregon]. 



Adult In breed m'j-pJumage. Similar to P. nic/ricoUis, but the long 

 hair-like plumes covering the sides of the head and ear-coverts arc 

 mostly pale straw-colour, and but slightly tinged with chestnut on 

 the latter ; all the primaries and the outermost secondary quill or 

 quills arc uniform ash-brown, only the innermost secondaries being 

 pure white. Total length about 11"5 inches, culmcn from feathers on 

 forehead 0-9-1, wing 4-9-5-35, tarsus 1-6, outer toe and claw 2*2. 



