::. .ECHMOl'UOKVS. 



549 



Australia. 



Australia. 



Queensland {J. T. Cockerell). 



Bourke, R. Darling, N. S. 



Wales (Dr. Pecheij). 

 New South AVales. 



South Australia. 

 Tasmania. 

 New Zealand. 

 New Zealand. 



to", x". (S 2 'J^riiig) Plertfordshire, May 13. 



skeletons. 

 y". Skeleton. Lake of Constance. 



z" . Skeleton. 

 a\ b\ cT 2 skulls. 

 c\ S skull. 

 d^, e'. Sterna. 



Purchased. 

 Gould Coll. 

 Salvin-Godman Coll. 

 Gould Coll. 



Australian Museum 



[P.]. 

 Dr. K. H. Perks [C.]. 

 Gould Coll. 

 Sir Georg-e Grey [P.]. 

 Colonial Museum, 



Wellington [E.]. 

 Hon. W. Rothschild 



[P.]. 

 Dr. A. Giinther [C.]. 



Salvin-Godman Coll. 



jE. occidentalia. 



2. ^CHMOPHORUS. 



-^chmophorus, Coites, P. Acad. Philad. 1862, p. 229. 



Eill very long, slender and pointed ; culmen slightly uj)turned ; 

 secondaries short, the longest equal to the ninth or tenth primary ; 

 metatarsus equal to or verj' little shorter than the middle toe and 

 claw. Nuptial and winter plumages alike. 



Range. North and South America, 



Key to the Species. 



I. Chin and throat dark grey ; fore-neck chest- 



nut, rest of uuderparts white ; culmen 

 27-3'3 inches, wing 7'3-7'8, outer toe and 

 claw 32 major cJ $ , p. 549. 



II. Chin, throat, and fore-neck white, like the 



rest of the underparts. 



A. Size larger : culmen 2"4-3*l inches, wing 



7-8'l, outer toe and claw 3-5 occidentalis S > P- 551. 



B. Size smaller : culmen 2'l-2'2 inches, 



wing 6-4-6'7, outer toe and claw 3-1 . . occidentalis 2 , p- 551. 



( = clarkii) 



1. iEchmopliorus major. 



Grebe de Cayenne, UAubent. PI. Eid. ix. pi. 46. tig. 1 [no. 404]. 

 Le Grand Grebe, Buf. Hist. Xat. Ois. viii. p. 242 (1781). 

 Colymbus major, Bodd. Tabl. PL Enl. p. 24 (1783) [Cayenne]. 

 Cavenue Grebe, Lath. Gen. Si/n. iii. pt. i. p. 284 (1785) ; id. Gen. 



Bist. X. p. 34 (1824). 

 Colymbus cavenneusis, Ginel. S. N. i. pt. ii. p. 593 (1788) ; Bonnat. 



Tabl. Encycl. M6th. i. p. 53, pi. 45. tig. 1 (1790). 

 Podiceps cavanus. Lath. Ind. Orn. ii. p. 781 (1790); Vleill. N. Diet. 



d'Uist. Nat. xiii. p. 443 (1817) ; Steph. in Shaw's Gen. Zoul. .\iii. 



pt. i. p. 5 (1826). 

 Colymbus bicornis, Licht. Verz. Doubt, p. 88 (1823); G. E. Gray, 



Gm. B. iii. p. 633 (1846) ; id. Hand-l. B. iii. p. 93. 

 Podiceps leucopterus, King, Zool. Joiini. iv. p. 101 (1829) [Straits of 



Magellan] ; Jardine^- Selby,Ill. Orn. pi. 107 (1830) ; G. R. Gray, 



