2o8 love's meinie. 



Tropazarola? I. 

 Podiceps Minor. C. 

 Little Grebe. B. 



The Yorkshire accents and changes of its 

 name are given by Bewick : Dobchick — small 

 doucker ; Dipper, or Didapper. 



In Barbadoes — Two-penny chick. 



It seems to me curious that without knowing 

 Buffon's name, which I have only looked up 

 now, ' the Chesnutty,' given from the brown 

 on its back, I should have, myself, always 

 called its foot 'chesnutty,' from the shape of 

 its lobes. 



My 'Trepida' will do well enough, I think, 

 for a Latin rendering of Grebe, and will in- 

 clude the whole group of them, — ' stagnarum ' 

 remaining for this species only, and the others 

 being called Tippeted Trepids, or Muffed 

 Trepids, Eared Trepids or Majestic Trepids, 

 as I find out what they wear, and how they 

 behave. Grebe is used by Bufifon only for the 

 larger ones, and Castagneux for the smaller, 

 which is absurd enough, unless the smaller 

 are also the browner. 



But I find in Buffon some interesting 



