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104. PODICEPS CRISTATUS. L. C.M. 
Crested Grebe. 
P. Hectort. Burr. 
ABove, brown ; below, white ; top of the head, black, with a double 
crest ; chin, white ; ruff on the neck, rufous, tipped with black ; shoulders, 
and a band on the wings, white. 
i a ants (Oise aco Os L.. 2i 0a, 
The neck and breast are occasionally tinted with rufous brown. 
figg.—At first greenish white, then yellow brown; length, 2:35 ; 
breadth, 1:6. 
South Island, Australia, Europe, Asia, North America, South Africa. 
105. PODICEPS RUFIPECTUS. Gray. C.M. 
Dab-chick. Totokipio. 
AxBovE, blackish brown, finely streaked with white on the head ; throat, 
brown ; breast, rufous ; abdomen, white. 
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Breast, sometimes clouded with dirty yellow. 
Lgg.—W hite ; length, 1:65 ; breadth, 1. 
Both Islands. 
-LARIDA. Gul Ls. 
Bill, long, nostrils, lateral ; wings, long ; hind toe, short and elevated. ~ 
LESTRIS. 
BILL, straight, hooked at the end, basal part covered with a cere ; tarsi, 
longer than the middle toe. 
The colder parts of both hemispheres. 
106. LESTRIS CATARRACTES. L. O.M. 
Sea Hen. 
L. antarctica. GOULD. 
Brown, finely streaked with pale yellow on the back of the neck ; back, 
wing and tail coverts varied with white ; basal half of the quills, white ; 
shafts, white. 
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