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DUSKY GKEBE. 



SCLAVONIAN GREBE. HOENED GREBE. HORNED DABCHICK. 

 BLACK AND WHITE DABCHICK. 



PLATE CCII. FIG. II. 



Podiceps cornutus, 

 " olscurus, 

 " Caspicus, 



Colymlus cornutus, 

 " obscurus, 

 " Caspicus, 



LATHAM. SHAW. 



LATHAM. 



LATHAM. 



GilELDT. 



GMELDT. 



GMELDT. 



THE nest of this bird is large a mass of reeds, sedge, and other 

 water-plants, placed by the edge of the liquid element, or floated on 

 the surface among the rushes or other such vegetation that there has 

 its natural growth. 



The eggs appear to be from two to four or five in number. They 

 are of a white colour, with a faint tinge of blue. 



