68 PATAGONIAN EXPEDITIONS : ZOOLOGY. 



Of the American grebe as he met with it in Patagonia Mr. J. B. 

 Hatcher writes (MSS. notes): "Abundant in marshes and streams all 

 over Patagonia, and of the same general habits as the "hell diver [P. 

 podicipcs)^ 



" In cruising about the bay (Halt Bay) we saw numerous individuals 

 of a little grebe, the Podiceps roUaiidi, common in the Strait and Chan- 

 nels, but very difficult to shoot, on account of the rapidity with which it 

 dives, and the impossibility of predicting in what direction it will come up. 

 One was at length shot, and I was struck by the exquisite ruby red color 

 of the eye. They possess an exceedingly unpleasant fishy odour, which 

 becomes very perceptible in the process of skinning them." (Cunn. Nat. 

 Hist. Str. Magell., p. 348, 1871.) 



The bird referred to by Cunningham as Podiceps yollaudi is undoubt- 

 edly Podicipcs a>nericamts. 



PODICIPES ROLLANDI Gould. 



Podiceps yolland, Quoy & Gaim. Voy. Uranie, p. 133, pi. 36 (1824: 



Falkland Islands). 

 Podiceps roUandi, Gould, Voy. 'Beagle,' Birds, p. 137, part (1841 : Falk- 

 land Isl.); Gray, List B. part iii. p. 151, pt. (1844); id. Gen. B. III. 



p. 633 (1846); Reichenb. Syst. Av. Natatores, pi. 13. figs. 751-752 



(1848); Gould, P. Z. S. 1859, p. 98 (Falkland Isl); Scl. P. Z. S. 



i860, p. 389; Abbott, Ibis, 1861, p. 162; Scl. & Salv. Exot. Orn. II. 



p. 190 part (1869); iid. Nomencl. Av. Neotr. p. 150 (1873); Oust. 



Sci. Miss. Cap Horn, Oiseaux, p. 233, part (1891). 

 Rollandia leitcotis, Cuv., teste Bonap. C. R. xlii. p. 775 (1856). 

 Podiceps roi/aiidii, Schl. Mus. Pays-Bas, Urinat. p. 42 (1867: Falkland 



Isl). 

 Podiceps kitcoiis, Cuv.; teste Gray, Hand-List B. III. p. 94, no. 10755 



(1871). 

 Podicipcs Fol/aiidi, Grant, Cat. B. Brit. Mus. XXVI. p. 526 (1898); 



Sharpe, Hand-List B. I. p. 114 (1899). 



General description. 



Size. — Total length, about 14 inches. 



