410 COLYMBID^E. 



NAT A TORES. COLYMBIDJ2. 



THE RED-NECKED GREBE. 



Podiceps rubricollis. 



Podiceps rubricollis, Red-necked Grebe, PENN. Brit. Zool. vol. ii. p. 139. 



MONTAGU, Ornith. Diet. 



BEWICK, Brit. Birds, vol. ii. p. 169. 



FLEM. Brit. An. p. 131. 



SELBY, Brit. Ornith. vol. ii. p. 392. 



JENYNS, Brit. Vert. p. 252. 



,, GOULD, Birds of Europe. 



Grfbejou-gris, TEMM. Man. d'Ornith. vol. ii. p. 720. 



THE RED-NECKED GREBE is not found in this country so 

 frequently as the Grebe last described ; it is, moreover, a 

 winter visitor only, and with this further difference, that 

 young birds of the year are of much more frequent occur- 

 rence than adult specimens. It is easily distinguished, 

 being intermediate in size between the Great-crested 

 Grebe and the Horned, or Sclavonian Grebe, and differs 

 from the other species found in this country, in having a 

 much longer and stronger bill in proportion to the bulk of 

 the bird, and the base of the bill is mostly yellow ; this 



