PODICIPES. 475 



1617. Podicipes albipennis. The Indian Little Grebe or DabchicTc. 



Podiceps philippensis, apud Blyth, Cat. p. 311 ; Theobald, J. A. S. B. 



xxiii, p. 603 ; Jerdon, B. 1. iii, p. 822 ; Blyth $ Wald. Birds 



Burm. p. 166; Ball, S. F. vii, p. 233 ; Anders. Yunnan Exped., 



Aves, p. 702 ; wee Colymbus philippensis, Bonn. 

 Podiceps minor, apud Hume, N. fy E. p. 046 ; Stoliczka, J. A. S. B. 



xli, pt. 2, p. 256 ; Hume, S. F. \, p. 268 ; Adam, ibid. p. 402 ; 



Butler fy Hume, S. F. iv, p. 31 ; Fairbank, S. F. v, p. 410 ; Hume fy 



Dav. S. F. vi, p. 490 ; Cripps, S. F. vii, p. 313 ; Hume, Cat. no. 975 ; 



Scully, S. F. viii, p. 364 ; Vidal, S. F. ix, p. 93; Butler, ibid. 



p. 439 ; Barnes, ibid. p. 460; Reid, S. F. x, p. 85 : Davidson, ibid. 



p. 326 ; Damson, ibid. p. 418 ; Barnes, Birds Bom. p. 420 ; id. Jour. 



Bom. N. H. Soc. i, p. 61 ; vi, p. 291 ; Hume, S. F. xi, p. 348 ; nee 



Colymbus minor, Gmel. 

 Podiceps fluviatilis, apud Legge, Birds CeyL pp. 1059, 1222 ; Scully, 



Ibis, 1881, p. 593 ; nee Colymbus fluviatilis, Tunst. 

 ? Podiceps albescens, Mandelli, Blanf. S. F. y, p. 486. 

 Tachybaptes fluviatilis, ajmd Oates, B. B. ii, p. 441 ; id. in Hume's 



N>& E. 2nd ed. iii, p. 401 ; Davidson, Ibis, 1898, p. 42. 

 Podicipes minor, apud Sharpe, Park. Miss., Aves, p. 148. 

 Tachybaptes albipennis, Sharpe, Bull. B. O. C. iv. p. iv (1894) ; id. 



Ibis, 1895, p. 139. 



Pandub, Pantiri, Dubduli, Churaka, H. ; Dubari, Beng. ; Munu- 

 gudi-kodi, Tel. ; Mukelepan, Tarn., Ceylon. 



Fig. 127. -Head of P. albipennis. \. 



Coloration. In breeding plumage the forehead, crown, and hind 

 neck are blackish brown ; lores, front of cheeks, and chin blackish \ 

 sides of head extending up to the orbit, and of neck, throat, and 

 fore neck chestnut ; upper parts very dark brown, but rather paler 

 than the head ; primaries paler brown, bases of inner primaries 

 and the whole or nearly the whole of the secondaries and their 

 shafts white ; abdomen silky white : breast, flanks, and vent 

 feathers dark brown, more or less mixed with white. 



In winter plumage the crown and hind neck are brown, thtr 

 chin white, and the chestnut of the neck replaced by pale rufous. 

 Some birds appear to retain the summer plumage at all events 

 until December. 



Young birds are brown above, white below ; fore neck and 

 flanks brownish. 



Bill black with a white tip, base and round the gape pea-green 

 to sulphur- yellow ; irides red-brown ; legs and feet blackish green t 

 inside of tarsus pale olive-green. 



Length 9 ; wing 3-9 ; tarsus 1-35 ; bill from gape 1. 



