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generally dlackish-brown ; secondaries chiefly white ; ear-coverts 
and front of neck ferruginous-brown ; under parts otherwise 
silvery-white, mottled on chest and sides of body with brown ; 
bill black, horn-coloured at tip; legs and feet dark olive ; 
irides brown. Length 8:5 to ro inches; culmen 0°8; wing 4; 
tarsus 1°35. 
Adult (Winter): Chin and upper throat white ; sides of 
head and fore neck rufous-buff ; chest and flanks brownish- 
grey ; otherwise much as in summer. Distinguishable from 
preceding species by its smaller size. 
Young: Are browner above and the under mandible is 
yellow. 
Distribution: Resident in most of temperate Europe and 
Asia, also found in the Malay Archipelago, Northern Australia, 
Madagascar and Africa. 
Habitat: Fresh waters where aquatic plants abound ; 
occasionally also on the sea-coast 
