468 BRITISH BIRDS. 



PODICEPS MINOR. 

 LITTLE GREBE. 



(Plate 39.) 



Colynil)us minor, Briss. Orn. vi. p. 56 (17G0) ; Gmcl. Sijst. Nat. i. p. 591 (1788) ; et 

 auctorum plurimorum — (Latham), (Betvick), {Temminck), {Boi^)arte), {Kan- 

 viatDi), {Sh'p/ic)is), {Sclbi/), (Yarrell), (Montagu), (Fleminff), (Jenyns), {Gould), 

 (IIeii(/lin), (Swinhoe), (Gurney), &c. 



Colymbus fluvialilis, Briss. Orn. vi. p. 59 (17G0) ; runsUtn, Orii. Brit. p. 3 (1771). 



Colymhus tkiviatilis nifriicans, Briss. Orn. vi. p. G2 (17(]0). 



Colymbus auritus, y, Linn. Syst. Nat. i. p. 22:5 (17GG). 



Colymbus pyreiiaicus, Lapcir. K. Vd. Ak. Xya Ilandl. iii. p. Ill (1782). 



Pociiceps minutus, I j^^,^;^_ g^^^^ g^^^^ g^^^^^^j^ ;_ p_ 294 (1787). 



Podiceps hebridiali.s, i 



Colymbus hebridicus (Lath.), Gmel. Syst. Nat. i. p. 594 (1788). 



Podiceps minor (Briss.), Lath. Ind. Orn. ii. p. 784 (1790). 



Colymbus philippt'nsis, Bonn. Encycl. Mcth. i. p. 58, pi. 4G. fig. 3 (1790), 



Colymbus miuutus (Lath.), Pall. Zooyr. llosso-Asiat. ii, p. 358 (182G). 



Podiceps novse-hollandise, Steph. Skald's Gen. Zool. xiii. pt. 1, p. 18 (1825). 



Podiceps noctivagus, Temm. Tahl. Meth. p, 100 (18.36), 



Podiceps gularis, Goidd, Proc. Zool. Soc. 1830, p. 145. 



Sylbeocyclus minor (Briss.), Bonap. Comp. List B. Eur. ^ N. Amer. p. 64 (1838), 



Sylbeocyclus europajus, 3Iacyill. Man. Brit. B. ii. p. 205 (1842). 



Podiceps philippensis (Bonn.), Gray, Cat. Mamm. ^- B. Nepal, p. 147 (1846), 



Tacbybaptus minor (Briss.), Reichenh. Av. Syst. Nat., Natatores, pi, 2 (1849), 



Tacbybaptus pbilippensis (Bonn.), j 



Tacliybaptus caponsis, i Bonap. Cornpt. Rend, xliii. p, 775 (1857). 



Tacliybaptus gularis ( Goidd), ) 



Podiceps (Sylbeocyclus) tricolor. Gray, Proc. Zool. Soc. 18G0, p. 3G6. 



Podiceps fluviatilis (Briss.), Deyl. ^ Gerhe, Orn. Eur. ii. p. 587 (1867). 



Podiceps albescens, MandelU, fide Blanford, Stray Fcuth. v. p. 486 (1877), 



The Little Grebe is by far the commonest British species of this genus. 

 It is a resident in all districts suited to its habits botli in England, Wales, 

 Scotland, and Ireland, extending to the Outer Hebrides and the Orkneys. 

 To the Shetlands it is only a rare winter visitor from Norway. It appears 

 only occasionally to breed in the Channel Islands, where it is best known 

 as a winter visitor. 



The Little Grebe is confined to the Old World, where it is a resident 

 south of about lat, 42"^ in the subtropical portion of both the northern and 

 the southern hemisphere, and in the tropics where a somewhat similar cli- 

 mate can be found at a high elevation. In Western Europe, in consequence of 

 the influence of the Gulf-stream, its breeding-range extends twenty degrees 



