RED-NECKED GREBE. 



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tertials, and rump dark brown; wing-primaries nearly black; 

 the secondaries mostly white, forming a conspicuous j)atch ; 

 neck in front rich chestnut-red ; breast and belly silky-white, 

 flecked with brown ; sides under the wing, flanks, and under 

 tail-coverts greyish-brown ; legs and toes dark greenish- 

 brown on the outer surface, the inner surface greenish- 

 yellow. 



The whole length is sixteen inches and a half. From the 

 carpal joint to the end of the primaries seven inches. 



Young birds have the head and neck behind dusky-brown ; 

 the back and wings neither so dark in the brown colour, nor 

 so uniform in the tint, as in the adult birds, the margins of 

 the feathers being ash-brown ; chin, throat, and neck in 

 front greyish-white ; other parts as in the more adult birds. 

 The Author has seen young birds more than half grown 

 which exhibited longitudinal dark stripes on a light ground- 

 colour down the neck. 



Mr. John Marshall of Taunton has an albino taken near 

 Beachy Head in 1879. 



The figure below represents the form of the foot in the 

 Grebes. 



