31G 



COLYMBID.E, 



N ATA TORES. 



COLYMDID.'E. 



THE LITTLE GREBE, or DABCHICK. 



Podiceps viinor, The Little Grebe, Penn. Brit. Zool. vol. ii. p. 137. 



hebridicus. Black-chin 

 minor, TJttle 



liel)ri(licus, Black-cliin 

 minor. Little 



liehridiciis. Black-chin 

 minor. Little 



138. 



]MoNT. Ornith. Diet. 



Bewick, Brit. Birds, vol. ii. p. 171. 



>> tt )> ji I I Zt 



Flem. Brit. An. p. 132. 

 ,, ,, ,, ,, Selisy, Brit. Ornith. vol. ii. p. 401. 



,, ,, ,, ,, Jenyns, Brit. Vert. p. 254. 



,, ,, ,, ,, Gould, Birds of Europe, pt. ii. 



,, „ Grebe castagneui, Temm. Man. d'Ornith. vol. ii. p. 727. 



The Little Grebe, or Dabchick, as it is more gene- 

 rally called, is tlie smallest, as well as the most common, of 

 the British Grebes. It remains here throufjhout the whole 

 year, inhabiting rush-grown lakes or fish-ponds, and the reedy 

 parts of most rivers during summer, but in winter it is more 



