314 BIEDS OF EGYPT. 



comes into Lower Egypt in the winter, where it is met with 

 singly. 



Summer plumage. — Tufts on the head, upper part of the 

 head, and back of the neck black j remainder of the upper 

 parts, including the wings, olive-black, the secondaries white ; 

 chin and sides of the head white ; neck chestnut ; remainder 

 of the under surface of the body white, shading into dusky 

 black at the vent ; beak olive-black, shaded with yellow at the 

 gape ; legs dusky olive ; irides red. 



Entire length 17'5 inches; culmen 1"7 ; wing, carpus to 

 tip, 7"9 ; tarsus 12. 



Fig. Gould, B. of Eur. pi. 389. 



350. PoDiCEPS MINOR (Linn.). Little Grebe. 



The present species is plentiful in Lower Egypt and the 

 Fayoom, where I have shot it on several occasions, but have 

 never observed it on the river. 



Front of the face, upper part of the throat, and the whole 

 of the upper plumage olive-black ; wings brown, with a large 

 portion of the secondaries white ; ear-coverts and front of the 

 neck rich ferruginous brown ; uuderparts white, shaded with 

 dusky on the crop, sides, and vent ; beak olive-black, shading 

 into yellow at the tip and gape; legs olive ; irides brown. 



Entire length 10 inches; culmen 0'9; wing, carpus to 

 tip, 4 ; tarsus 1'4. 



Fig. Gould, B. of Eur. pi. 392. 



