GREAT-CRESTED GREBE. 



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NATATORES. 





COLYMBID&. 



THE GREAT-CRESTED GREBE. 



Podiceps cristatus. 



Podiceps cristatus, Great-crested Grebe, PENN. Brit. Zool. vol. ii. p. 130. 



tippet p. 134. 



crested MONTAGU, Ornith. Diet. 



BEWICK, Brit. Birds, vol. ii. p. 161. 



urinator, tippet p. 163. 



cristattjis, crested FLEM. Brit. An. p. 131. 



SELBY, Brit. Ornith. vol. ii. p. 394. 



JENYNS, Brit. Vert. p. 251. 



GOULD, Birds of Europe. 



Grbe huppe, TEMM. Man. d'Ornith. vol. ii. p. 717. 



PODICEPS. Generic Characters. Bill of moderate length, straight, 

 hard, slightly compressed, pointed, forming an elongated cone. Nostrils 

 lateral, concave, oblong, open in front, and perforate, closed behind by a 

 membrane. Legs and feet long, attached behind the centre of gravity ; 

 tarsi very much compressed ; three toes in front, one behind ; anterior toes 

 very much flattened, united at the base, surrounded by an extended mem- 

 brane ; hind toe also flattened, articulated on the inner surface of the 

 tarsus ; claws large, flat. No true tail. Wings short, first three primaries 

 nearly equal in length, and the longest in the wing. 



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