392 NATATORES. PODICEPS. GREBE. 



RED-NECKED GREBE. 



PODICEPS KUBRICOLLIS, Lath. 

 PLATE LXXII. 



Podiceps rubricollis, Lath. Ind. Orn. 2. 783. sp. f> Steph. Shaw's Zool. 



13. 8 Flem. Br. Anim. 1. 131. sp. 207 Faun. Amer. Boreal. 2. 411. 



No. 175. 



Colymbus rubricollis, Gmel. Syst. 1. 592 

 Colymbus subcristatus, Gmel, Syst. 1. 590. 

 Le Grebe a Joues grises, Buff. Ois. 8. 241 Id. PI. Enl. 931. 

 Grebe Jou-gris, Temm. Man. d'Ornith. 2. 720. 

 Graukehliger Steissfuss, Meyer, Tasschenb. Deut. 2. 429. 

 Red-necked Grebe, Penn. Arct. Zool. 2. 499. C Lath. Syn. 5. 288. Id. 



Sup. 260. pi. 118 Lewin's Br. Birds, 5. pi. 199. Mont. Orn. Diet, and 



Sup Bewick's Br. Birds, ed. 1826, 2. p. t. 161 Shaw's Zool. 13. 8 



Rennie's Mont. Orn. p. 408. 

 Colymbus Parotis, Gmel. Syst. 1. 592 Young. 



MOST of our authors speak of the Red-necked Grebe as a 

 very rare British species, but more, I am inclined to think, 

 from a want of knowledge of its habits during its sojourn 

 with us, than from the real scarcity of the bird, as in Nor- 

 thumberland I have met with it at least as frequently as any 

 of the other species. It differs, however, from them in being 

 much oftener seen in the salt than in fresh water ; and from 

 the facility with which it can escape in the open sea, and 

 the little attention paid to so nimble a diver by the wildfowl 

 shooter, it is seldom procured, unless expressly sought for. 



Periodical ^he sev eral specimens I have obtained were all killed during 

 visitant. 



the winter and early spring months, therefore I conceive it 



to be only a visitant to us during that period ; and this opi- 

 nion seems strengthened by the silence of all our own writers 

 as to its breeding in the British Islands. In size it is inter- 

 mediate between the Horned and the Crested Grebes, of 

 which latter species PENNANT supposed it might be a variety. 

 A comparison, however, between these two must at once 

 convince any one of that not being the case, the distinctive 

 characters of the red-necked species being decidedly promi- 



