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lustre, and faintly spotted with darker grey. Sides and 

 flanks grey, the feathers open in texture. Five or six 

 of the secondary quills white, forming a patch or specu- 

 lum. Quills hair-brown. Legs and toes greyish-black, 

 with a greenish tinge. 



CRESTED GREBE. 



PODICEPS CRISTATUS, Lath. 

 PLATE LXXIII. FIGS. 1. AND 2. 



Podiceps cristatus, Lath. Ind. Orn. 2. 780. 1 Steph. Shaw's Zool. 13. 3 



Flem. Br. Anim. 1. 131. sp. 206 Faun. Amer. Boreal. 2. 410. No. 174. 

 Colymbus cristatus, Linn. Sjst. 1. 222. 7 Gmel. Syst. 1. 589. 

 Colymbus major cristatus et cornutus, Raii Syn. 124. A. 2 Will 257. 



t. 61. 

 Colymbus cornutus, Briss. Orn. 6. 45. No. 4. t. 5. f. 1. 



Le Grebe cornu, Buff. Ois. 8. 235. t. 19 Id. PL Enl. 400. 



Grebe huppe', Temm. Man. d'Orn. 2. 717 Cuv. Reg. Anim. 1. 509 



Lesson, Man. d'Ornith. 2. 356. 

 Gehaubter Steissfuss, Bechst. Naturg. Deut. 4. 533 Meyer, Tasschenb. 



Deut. 2. 426. 

 Greater Crested and Horned Douker, AlbWs Birds, 1. 1. 81 Will (Angl.) 



340. t. 61. 

 Crested Grebe, Br. Zool. 2. 497- No. 223 Arct. Zool. 2. 498. A Lath. 



Syn. 5. 281. 1 Lewies Br. Birds, 5. pi. 106 Mont. Ornith. Diet. 1 



Bewick's Br. Birds, ed. 1826, 2. p. t. 153 Shaw's Zool. 13. 3. 

 Colymbus urinator, Linn. Syst. 1. 223. 9 .Gmel. Syst. 1. 593. 

 Colymbus, Briss. Orn. 6. 34. 1. t. 3. f. 1. 

 Colymbus cinereus major, Raii Syn. 124. A. 1. 



Colymbus major Aldrov. Raii Syn. 125. 6 Will. 256. 



Le Grebe, et le Grebe huppe', Buff: Ois. 8. 233. et 237 Id- PL Enl. 944. 



et 941. 



Greater Loon or Arsefoot, Will. (Angl.) 339. 51 Edw. t. 360. 

 Tippet Grebe, Br. Zool. 2. 496. No. 222. t. 78 Lath. Syn. 5. 283. 2 



Bewicks Br. Birds, ed. 1826, 2. p. t. 155. 



PROVINCIAL. Gaunt, Cargoose, Loon. 



THE Crested Grebe is one of the largest of the genus, and 

 is an indigenous species, breeding annually on the pools 

 amidst the fens, on the moors of Shropshire and Cheshire, 

 and on a few of the northern Scottish lakes. During the 

 winter, when the waters of the interior of the country are 

 frozen, it retires to the mouths of rivers, and to the line of 



sea-coast, where it obtains the necessary supply of fish and 

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