GREAT-CRESTED GREBE. 



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NATATORES. 



COLYMBIDJE. 



THE GREAT-CRESTED GREBE. 



Podiceps cristatus, Great-crested Grebe, Penn. Brit, Zool. vol. ii. p. 130. 



urinator, 

 cristatus, 



tippet 

 crested 



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 tippet 

 crested 



Grebe huppt. 



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Mont. Ornilh. Diet. 

 Bewick, Brit. Birds, vol. ii. p. 161. 



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Flem. Brit. An. p. 131. 

 Seley, Brit. Ornith. vol. ii. p. 394. 

 Jenyns, Brit. Vert. p. 251. 

 Gould, Birds of Europe, pt. ix. 

 Temm. Man. d'Ornith, vol. ii. p. 717. 



Podiceps. Generic Character. — Bill of moderate length, straight, hard, 

 slightly compressed, pointed, forming an elongated cone. Nostrils lateral, 

 concave, oblong, open in front and perforate, closed behind by a membrane. 

 Legs and feet long, attached behind the centre of gravity ; tarsi very much 

 compressed ; three toes in front, one behind ; anterior toes very much flatten- 

 ed, united at the base, surrounded by an extended membrane ; hind toe also 

 flattened, articulated on the inner surface of the tarsus ; claws large, flat. No 

 true tail. Wings short, first three primaries nearly erpial in length, and the 

 longest in the wing. 



