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characters of the P. aKi'ifits, but it is at once distinguished from that 

 species by the silvery colouring of the plumes that adorn the sides of 

 the head; which in P. anritiis arc deep chestnut" (Gould, Voy. "Beao-le," 

 Birds, p. 136, 1 841). 



Genus .^CHMOPHORUS Coues. 



Type. 



AicliniopJiot'iis, Coues, P. Acad. Sci. Philad. 1862, p. 

 229; Ogilvie-Grant, Cat. Eds. Brit. Mus. XXVI. 

 p. 549 (1898); Sharpe, Hand-List Bds. I. p. 115 

 (1899) ^E. occidcHtalLS. 



Geographical Range. — North America and Central and Southern parts 



of South America to the Straits of Magellan. 



Fig. 39. 



yEcHMOPHORUS MAJOR (Boddacrt). 



Grebe de Cayenne, D'Aubent. PI. Enl. IX. pi. 404, fig. i (1781). 

 Le Grand Grebe, Buff. Hist. Nat. Ois. viii. p. 242 (1781). 

 Colynibus major, Bodd. Tabl. PI. Enl. 



p. 24 (1783). 

 Cayenne Grebe, Lath. Gen. Syn. iii. 



pt. i. p. 284 (1785). 

 Colynibus cayennensis, Gm. Syst. Nat. 



i. p. 593 (1788). 

 PocUceps cayanns, Lath. Ind. Orn. II. 



p. 781 (1790). 

 Colynibits bicornis, Licht. Verz. Doubl. 



p. 88 (1823: Montevideo). 

 Podiceps leucopteriis, King, Zool. 



Journ. IV. p. loi (1829: Straits 



of Magellan); Gray, List B. pt. iii. p. 149 (1844); id. Gen. B. III. p. 



633 (1846); Des. Murs in Gay's Hist. Chil. Zool. I. p. 463 (1847); 



Reichenb. Syst. Av. Natatores, pi. VII. figs. 740-741 (1848); James, 



List Chil. B. p. 15 (1885); Burm. An. Mus. Nac. Buenos Aires, III. 



pt. X. p. 249 (1888: Patagonia). 



^Eclunoplionis major. Male. Musco de 

 La Plata. Outline of Wing, showing relative 

 proportion of primary and secondary quills. 



