EARED GREBE. 



PYGOPODES. 



133 

 PODWIPEDID^. 





PoDiCEPS NiGRicoLLis, C. L. Brehm.* 

 THE EAKED GREBE. 



Podiceps miritus. 



The Eared Grebe is the rarest of the five species of 

 Grebes found in the British Islands ; and during the many 

 years that Montagu devoted attention to ornithology he 

 only obtained one specimen. It is a southern species, which 

 is distinguished from the Sclavonian Grebe by being a little 

 smaller in size ; in having the bill bent slightly upwards, 

 the curve being most conspicuous in the lower mandible ; 

 and in the part between the base of the bill and the eye 

 never carrying any ferruginous feathers at any age or season. 

 The reddish, or golden-yellow feathers, when present, arise 

 behind the eye, covering the orifice of the ears. Examples 



* IlaiuU.. Naturg. Yog. Deutbcblands, p. 9(33 (1831). 



