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with grey feather edges, and the sides of the body lose their 

 red tinge. 



In the winter the occipital crest totally disappears, and 

 the grey back becomes brown, and this is much the plumage 

 of the young birds in the spring. The beak is whitish in 

 winter, with brown back ; the throat and neck in front are 

 pure silvery white at all seasons. A summer migrant to the 

 north. 



This species is common in all the south and midland dis- 

 tricts, but it is not known exactly how far north it goes, cer- 

 tainly not so far as the next. 



287. P. KuBfticoLLis, Lath. Gra Strupig Dopping. The Ked- 



necked Grebe. D. F. 



Beak from the gape about 2 in. ; black ; yellow at the 

 root ; throat in the old bird ash grey at all seasons ; the 

 first fourteen wing feathers brown, the fifteenth brown, 

 with a white spot ; the rest white. 



The female is smaller than the male, the head less glossy, 

 the beak thinner, and the white eye streak not so plain. The 

 male has no ruff as in the last, but on the back of the head 

 there is a small bushy divided crest, not forming pointed 

 horns ; sides of the cheeks grey ; breast red ; under parts 

 white ; upper parts deep black-grey ; a white spot on the 

 wing. 



In the winter the crest totally disappears; bill grey- 

 brown, with yellow base; legs and toes outwardly brown, 

 inwardly pale yellow ; head above, and on the sides, as well 

 as all the upper parts of the body, black-brown, with broad 

 ash grey edges ; front of the neck brown-grey in the middle 

 (in the crested grebe it is pure white), with a red-brown 

 scarcely perceptible spot on each side ; under parts silvery 

 white. 



Young : sides of the head white, longitudinally streaked 

 with brown ; throat white ; neck in front red-brown ; breast 

 and belly dirty white ; otherwise like the adult in winter. 

 Not rare in the south of the country, and I have received 

 the nest and eggs from Lulea Lapland. Is said to be only 



