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COLYMBID'E. 



NATATORES. 



COLYMBTDjE. 



THE RED-NECKED GREBE. 



Podiceps ruhricollis. Red-necked Grebe, Penn, Brit. Zool. vol. ii. p. 139. 



„ ,, „ „ Mont. Ornith. Diet. 



,, ,, ,, ,, Bewick, Brit. Birds, vol. ii. p. 169. 



,, ,, ,, ,, Flem. Brit. An. p. 131. 



,, ,, ,, ,, Selby, Brit. Ornith. vol. ii. p. 392. 



,, ,, ,, ,, Jenvns, Brit. Vert. p. 252. 



,, ,, ,, ,, Gould, Birds of Europe, pt. vii. 



,, „ Grebe jou-gris, Temm. Man.d'Ornith. vol. ii. p. 720. 



The Red-necked Grebe is not found in this country so 

 frequently as tlie Grebe last described ; it is, moreover, a 

 winter visiter only, and with this further difference, that 

 young birds of the year are of much more frequent occur- 

 rence than adult specimens. It is easily distinguished, being 

 intermediate in size between the Great-crested Grebe and the 

 Horned, or Sclavonian Grebe, and differs from the other spe- 

 cies found in this country, in having a much longer and 

 stronger bill in proportion to the bulk of the bird, and the 



