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The egf!;s of the White-winged, or Least, Grebe measure from 1-2 

 to 1-4 in length, and from -87 to -95 in breadth. 



The specimens from Antiofiuia are much smaller than those from 

 Jamaica. 



2. Jamaica (A. Neicton). Salvin-Godman Coll. 



1. Jamaica, 13th Dec. ( W. Osburn). Salvin-Godman Coll. 



1'. Antioquia, U.S. Colombia {T. K. Salvin-Godman Coll. 

 'Salmon). 



Podicipes americanus, Gamot. 

 (Plate XI. fig. S.) 



I'odieeps rollandi, Scl. Sf Huds. Argent. Orn. ii. p. 1'04 (1889) ; Holland, 



Ibis, 1892, p. 214. 

 Podicipes americanus, Grant, Cat. Birds B. M. xxvi. p. 524 (1898) ; 



&harpe, Hand-l. i. p. 114 (1899). 



The eggs of Holland's Grebe measure from l-5o to 1-S5 in length, 

 and from 1-05 to 1-23 in breadth. 



1. "Valparaiso, 91h December. G. Napier, Esq. [P.]. 



"). .\rgeutine RepuUic. A. H. Holland, Esq. [C.j. 



Genus BYTES, Kaup. 

 Dytes auritus {Linn.). 



Podiceps auritus, Thien. Forfpjlanz. r/es. Vog. tab. Ixxiv. fig. 7, a-c 



(1845-54); Baedeker, Eier Eur. Fog. tab. 16. fig. 3 (1855-63); 



Dresser, Birds Eur. viii. p. 645 (1879). 

 Podiceps cornutus, Thien. torn. cit. tab. Lxxiv. fig. 8, a, 6 ; Baedeker, torn. 



c.it. tab. IG. fig. 4 ; Heiuitson, Eijqs of Brit. Birds, ii. p. 445, pi. cxxi. 



fig. iii (1856) ; Seebohm, Brit. Birds, iii. p. 462, pi. 39 (1885). 

 Podiceps arcticus, Baedeker, torn. cit. tab. 16. fig. 5. 

 Podicipes cornutus, Seebohm, Eggs of Brit. Bh-ds, p. 81, pi. 22. fig. 3 



(1896). 

 Podicipes auritus, Grant, Cat. Birds B. M. xxvi. p. 527 (1898). 

 Dytes auritus, Sharpe, Hand-l. i. p. 114 (1899). 



The eggs of the Sclavonian Grebe vary from 1-56 to 1"86 iu 

 length, and from 1*14 to l"3l in breadth. 



2. Fort Yukon, Alaska (J2. Zisnnico^^ : Salvin-Godman Coll. 



Henshaw Coll.). 



3. Fort Yukon {R. K.: Henshaw Salvin-Godman Coll. 



Coll.). 



6. Husevig, Iceland (Benzon). Salvin-Godman Cell. 



1. Iceland, 13th June. Salvin-Godman Coll. 



2. Iceland ( W. Proctor). Salvin-Godman Coll. 



4. Myvalin, Iceland, 11th July. Seebohm Coll. 

 2. Iceland. Seebohm Coll. 



5. Iceland. Seebohm Coll. 

 2. Iceland, 1st April. Seebohm Coll. 

 5. Rago Island, Gulf of Finland, Seebohm Coll. 



Pith June. 

 5 . Central Pomerania, 4th June. Seebohm Coll. 



