1. roDiriPEs. 547 



Podicipes iufiiscatus, tSharpe, Ibis, 1892, p. /J4o [Lake Naiwasha]. 

 I.ophsethyia cristata, Sharpe, llundb. B. Gt. Brit. iv. p. 194 

 (1897). 



Adult in hreeding-plionar/e. General colour above very dark ash- 

 brown, inclining to blackish ; forehead and crown black, with a 

 slight, greenish-grey gloss, the feathers on each side of the crown 

 elongate and forming a long double crest ; lores, space in front of 

 the eye, cheeks, chin, and throat white more or less tinged with 

 rufous, and shading into rich chestnut on the long feathers covering 

 the hinder parts of the head ; the upper neck clad in long black 

 plumes, forming a full ruff ; lower part of the hind-neck deep ash- 

 brown ; lower part of the fore-neck and rest of the underparts silvery 

 white, except on the sides and flanks, which are rufous chestnut 

 tipped with dark ash or nearly uniform dark ash : lesser wuKj-coverts 

 formimj a tuide nhite hand cdong the edge of the wing ; primary- 

 quills dark ash, more or less white towards the base of the inner 

 web : outermost secondary partially or entirely dark ash, remainder 

 almost ])ure white except the last five or six which are dark 

 brownish black ; humerals lohite, tipped with rufous or ash towards 

 the extremity. Iris crimson, with a narrow golden ring round the 

 pupil ; culmen duskj^ ; sides of upper mandible dull carmine, base of 

 lower mandible carmine, cutting-edges dusky, tip pale horn ; inner 

 side of the metatarsus, toes, and lobes pale yellowish brown with a 

 slight greenish tinge ; outer side of tarsus, basal phalanx of outer 

 toe, joints, and claws blackish. Total length about 20 inches, 

 culmen from feathers on forehead 1*6-2"1, wing 6"7-8*l, tarsus 2-5- 

 2-6, outer toe and claw 2'9-3-l. 



Adult in non-breeding jjlnmage. General colour of the upper parts, 

 including the top of the head and hind-neck, dark ash-brown 

 inclining to black ; sides and flanks tipped with the same colour ; 

 rest of plumage pure white ; wings as described above. 



Young. Similar to the adult in non-breeding plumage, but the head 

 and neck are longitudinally striped and marked with dark ash-brown. 



Young in down. General colour of the upper parts whitish brown, 

 shading into white on the neck and head, and longitudinally striped 

 with deep smoky-brown ; a rather large patch of the latter colour 

 on each side of the crown immediately behind the bare red patch on 

 the forehead ; base of the fore-neck and rest of the underparts white. 



Hab. Central and Southern Europe and Asia as far east as Japan ; 

 Africa ; Australia ; Tasmania ; New Zealand. 



a. Ad.sk. Great Britain. \V. Yarrell, Esq. [P.], 



b. Pull. sk. England. Gould Coll. 



c. 5 imm. sk. Friskney, Lincolnshire coast, Seebohm Coll. 



Nov. 23. 



d. e. cJ $ ad. st. Leicestershire. Theodore Walker, 



Esq. [P.l. 

 /"j^- d 2 ad. St. Norfolk, May. Purchased. 



■ h. c? ad. sk. Yarmouth, Norfolk, Nov. 2. Col. H. W. Fiilden 



\V.\ 

 i, A-. S 2 ad. >k. Well,*, Norfolk, Feb. 2 {P. C. Dr.R.BowdlerSLarpe 

 Abb). [P.]. 



2x2 



