GREBE. 



NATATORES. PODICEPS. 



397 



Fig. 2. Represents a bird of the second year. 



Cheeks and throat white. Occipital tufts short, blackish- 

 grey. Sides and flanks dashed with yellowish-brown. 

 During the first year, the occipital tufts are scarcely 

 discernible. As the bird approaches to maturity, the 

 tufts increase in size, and the neck-frieze becomes gra- 

 dually developed. 



Young 

 bird. 



HORNED GREBE. 



PODICEPS CORNUTUS) Lath. 

 PLATE LXXIV. FIGS. 1. AND 2. 



Podiceps cornutus, Lath. Ind. Orn. 2. 782. sp. 5 Shaw's Zool. 13. 9. pi. 1. 

 Flem. Br. Anim. 1. 131. sp. 208 Fauna Amer. Boreal. 2. 411. No. 176. 



Colymbus cornutus, Gmel. Syst. 1. 591. sp- 19. 



Colymbus cornutus minor, Briss. 6. 50. 5. 



Colymbus seu Podiceps minor, Ran Syn. 190. 14. 



Le Petit Grebe cornu, Buff. Ois. 8. 237. Cuv. Reg. Anim. 1. 508 Les- 

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



Grebe d'Esclavonie, Buff. PL Enl. 404. 



Grebe cornu, ou Esclavon, Temm< Man. d'Ornith. 2. 721. 



Gehornter Steissfuss, Meyer, Tasschenb. Deut. 2. t. Heft. 18. 



Eared or Horned Dobchick, Edwards' 1 Glean, t. 145. 



Horned Grebe, Penn. Arct. Zqpl. 2. 417 Lath. Syn. 5. 287. 6. t. 91 



Shaw's ZooL 13. 9. pi. 1. Flem. Br. Anim. 1. 131. sp. 208 Rennie's 

 Mont. Ornith. Diet. 261. 



Sclavonian Grebe, Mont. Ornith. Diet. 1. et Sup. 



Podiceps obscurus, Lath. Ind. Orn. 2. 782. sp. 4. 



Podiceps caspicus, Lath. Ind. Orn. 2. 784. sp. 7. 



Colymbus obscurus, Gmel. Syst. 1. 592. 



Colymbus caspicus, Gmel. Syst. 1. 593. 



Le Petit Grebe, Buff. Ois. 8. 232 Id. PL Enl. 942. 



Black and White Dobchick, Edwards' Glean, pi. 96. f. 1. 



Dusky Grebe, Penn. Br. Zool. 2. 49fi. No. 225. pi. 78 Arct. Zool. 2. 420. 



Lath. Syn. 5. 286 Lenin's Br. Birds, 5. pL 198. Mont. Ornith. Diet. 



Bewick's Br. Birds, ed. 1826, 2. p. t. 159. 



IN the adult plumage the Horned Grebe may be reckoned 

 a rare British bird, particularly in the northern counties of 



There is no doubt but that the above synonymes attached to the young 

 f this species are equally liable of application to the Eared Grebe in the 

 immature state, which is only to be distinguished by a difference in the 

 form of the bill. 



The 

 Adult. 



Young. 



