RED-NECKED GREBE. 



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the head, and back of the neck, rich dark brown, almost 

 black ; cheeks, chin, and throat, fine bluish-grey, margined 

 with Avhite ; back, wing-coverts, tertials, and rump, dark 

 brown ; wing-primaries nearly black ; the secondaries white ; 

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

 sides under the wing, the flanks, and under tail-coverts grey- 

 ish-brown ; legs and toes dark greenish-brown on the outer 

 surface, the inner surface greenish-yellow ; the whole length 

 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. 



I have seen young birds more than half grown which ex- 

 hibited longitudinal dark stripes on a light ground-colour 

 down the neck. 



The figure below represents the form of the foot in the 

 Grebes. 



