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where. It inhabits the northern, but not circumpolar, por- 

 tions of the Palsearctic and Nearctic Regions. 



Podiceps nigricollis. EARED GREBE. 



Podiceps nigricollis, C. L. Brehm, Vog. Deutschl. 

 p. 963 (1831). 



Colymbus cornutus, Naum. ix. p. 739. 

 Colymbus arcticus, Naum. ix. p. 755. 

 Podiceps auritus, Macg. v. p. 270; Hewitson, p. 445; 



Gray, p. 215; Yarr. ed. 2, iii. p. 417; id. ed. 3, iii. 



p. 420 ; Harting, p. 70. 



Podiceps nigricollis, Gould, v. pi. 41; Dresser, viii. p. 651. 

 The Eared Grebe, Yarr. ed. 1, iii. p. 313. 



Nigricollis = with a black neck ; from niger -f- collum. 



An irregular visitant, generally in spring, to the southern 

 and eastern districts of England, rarely to Scotland and 

 Ireland. It inhabits the temperate and southern Palsearctic 

 Region and Africa down to the Cape colony. 



Genus TACHYBAPTES, Reichenbach, Syst. Av. p. ii 

 (1851). 



Tachybaptes = diving quickly ; from ra%vs + f3aTTTijs. 



Tachybaptes fluviatilis. LITTLE GREBE. 



Colymbus fluviatilis, Tunstall, Orn. Brit. p. 3 



(1771). 



Colymbus minor, Naum. ix. p. 785. 

 Sylbeocyclus europseus, Macg. v. p. 276. 

 Podiceps minor, Hewitsoh, p. 446; Gray, p. 215; Yarr. 

 ed. 2, iii. p. 420; id. ed. 3, iii. p. 423; Gould, v. pi. 42; 

 Harting, p. 70. 



Podiceps fluviatilis, Dresser, viii. p. 659. 

 The Little Grebe or Dabchick, Yarr. ed. 1, iii. p. 316. 



Fluwdtllis = of or belonging to a river, fluvius. 



Resident and generally distributed. It inhabits the Old 

 World, 



