PODICIPIDA. 419 
Stray Feathers, Vol. V, p. 224; Murray’s Vertebrate Zoology 
of Sind, p. 311. 
THE CRESTED GREBE. 
Length, 22 ; wing, 7°5; bill at front, 2°37 ; tarsus, 2. 
Bill brown, tip white, beneath and at the sides reddish ; irides 
crimson-red ; naked lores red; feet plumbeous externally, within 
greenish-yellow. 
Head (with a double occipital crest) shining-back, which color 
descends along the back of the neck; lower neck above ashy- 
brown; back and wings, including scapulars and middle-coverts, 
brown, with a blackish-green lustre; lesser wing-coverts and 
secondaries white; cheeks and throat fulvous-white, succeeded 
by a wide frieze or collar, chesnut above, shining black below; 
Jower neck, breast and abdomen silky-white, tinged with rufous 
and ashy on the sides of the breast and abdomen. 
The young bird has the head brown; the crest undeveloped ; 
face and ears white, bordered witha rusty collar and a much 
smaller bill. 
The Crested Grebe is a not uncommon cold weather visitant 
to the Kurrachee Coast, and has been obtained on some of the 
larger tanks in Guzerat. 
Podiceps nigricollis, Sund. 
974b¢s.—Murray’s Vertebrate Zoology of Sind, Vol. IT, p. 311. 
THE BLACK-NECKED GREBE. 
Length, 12 to 13 ; expanse, 22°5 to 245 ; wing, 5:2 to 5°6; tarsus, 
2°9 to 3:2; bill at gape, 3°6 to 4. 
Bill black; irides vermilion ; legs and feet greenish-plumbeous, 
blackish exteriorly. 
Male: Whole of the top of the head, together with the rest 
of the upper part, the chin, throat, and neck all round, blackish- 
brown, very glossy on the head; back and wings duller and 
browner on the neck all round ; the chin and throat almost quite 
black, but a good deal speckled with white; this white speck- 
ling extending as a stripe at the sides of the neck behind the 
ear-coverts ; two short thick tufts on either side of the occiput, 
which, though scarcely noticeable in the dried skin, are erected 
at pleasure in the live bird ; behind the eye for about 1:4 inches 
a broad streak of orange and reddish-yellow silky glistening 
feathers ; the inner web of the sixth primary, and almost the 
whole of the subsequent primaries and secondaries, pure white; 
tertiaries and wing-coverts unicolorous with the back; the whole 
breast, abdomen and vent,’ satin-white, a little tinged with 
greyish-brown about the vent; tail unicolorous with the back, 
and on either side of it, and of the tail-coverts a good deal of 
white appears; sides and flanks mottled with blackish-brown, 
with traces of a rufous or orange striation. 
In full breeding plumage the sides and flanks are very strongly 
streaked with orange-red, and the parts indicated as speckled 
