GREBE. NATATORES. PODICEPS. 401 



neck, shining black. From behind and below the eyes 

 on each side, is a tuft of long slender shining orange- 

 buff feathers which cover the ears, and nearly meet be- 

 hind. Throat, neck, sides of the breast and upper plu- 

 mage, deep shining greyish-black. Flanks and sides 

 reddish-brown, mixed with greyish-black. Secondaries 

 white. Under plumage white, with a silky lustre. 

 Tarsi clove-brown, on the inside paler. 

 The description of the young of the preceding species may 

 serve for that of the present one, the only points of dif- 

 ference having been noted in the above account of the 

 Eared Grebe. 



LITTLE GREBE. 



PODICEPS MINOR, Lath. 

 PLATE LXXV. 



Podiceps minor, Steph. Shaw's Zool. 13. 13. pi. 2.Flem. Br. Anim. 1. 132. 



sp 210. 



Grebe castagneux, Temm. Man. d'Ornith. 2. 727- 

 Kleiner Steissfuss, Bechst. Naturg. Deut. 4. 565 Meyer, Tasschenb. Deut. 



2. 436. 



Little Grebe, Steph. Zool. 13. 13. pi. 2 Flem. Br. Anim. 1. 132. No. 210. 

 Dabchick, Rennie' > s Mont. Ornith. Diet. 126. 



Podiceps Hebridicus, Lath. Ind. Orn. 2. 785. sp. 11. \ 



Colymbus Hebridicus, Gmel. Syst. 1. 594. 



Black Chin Grebe, Br. Zool 2. 503. No. 227. Lath. Syn. 5. 292 Levin's > Old. 



Br. Birds, 5. pi. 201 Mont. Om. Diet, and Sup. Sowerbtfs Br. Mis. I 

 pi. 70 BewicVs Br. Birds, ed. 1 826, 2. 164. ) 



Podiceps minor, Lath. Ind. Orn. 2. 784. sp. 9. Rail Syn. 125. A. 3. 

 Colymbus minor, Gmel. Syst. 1. 591. 

 Colymbus fluviatilis, Briss. Orn. 6. 59. 9. 



Le Grebe de Riviere, ou le Castagneux, Buff. Ois. 8. 224. t. 20 Id. PL 



Enl. 905. 

 Little Grebe, Penn. Br. Zool. 2. 501. No. 226 Lath. Syn. 5. 289 Le- 



win's Br. Birds, 5. pi. 200. Mont. Ornith. Diet, and Sup. Bewick's 



Br. Birds, ed. 1826. p. t. 163. 



PROVINCIAL Dabchick, Dobchick, Didapper, Dipper, Small Doucker, 

 Loon. 



THIS well known little species, in many parts recognised 

 by the name of Dabchick.) is indigenous, and very generally 

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Young. 



