PODICIPIDJE. 419 



Stray Feathers, Vol. V, p. 224 ; Murray's Vertebrate Zoology 



ofSind,p. 311. 



THE CRESTED GREBE. 



Length, 22 ; wing, 7'5 ; bill at front, 2'37 ; tarsus, 2. 



Bill brown, tip white, beneath and at the sides reddish ; irides 

 crimson-red; naked lores red; feet plumbeous externally, within 

 greenish-yellow. 



Head (with a double occipital crest) shining-back, which color 

 descends along the back of the neck ; lower neck above ashy- 

 brown ; back and wings, including scapulars and middle-coverts, 

 brown, with a blackish-green lustre ; lesser wing-coverts and 

 secondaries white ; cheeks and throat fulvous-white, succeeded 

 by a wide frieze or collar, chesnut above, shining black below ; 

 lower neck, breast and abdomen silky-white, tinged with rufous 

 and ashy on the sides of the breast and abdomen. 



The young bird has the head brown ; the crest undeveloped ; 

 face and ears white, bordered with a rusty collar and a much 

 smaller bill. 



The Crested Grebe is a not uncommon cold weather visitant 

 to the Kurrachee Coast, and has been obtained on some of the 

 larger tanks in Guzerat. 



Podiceps nigricollis, Sund. 



9746^. Murray's Vertebrate Zoology of Sind, Vol. II, p. 311. 

 THE BLACK-NECKED GREBE. 



Length, 12 to 13 ; expanse, 22'5 to 24'5 ; wing, 5*2 to 5*6 ; tarsus, 

 2-9 to 3'2 ; bill at gape, 3'6 to 4. 



Bill black ; irides vermilion ; legs and feet greenish-plumbeous, 

 blackish exteriorly. 



Male : Whole of the top of the head, together with the rest 

 of the upper part, the chin, throat, and neck all round, blackish- 

 brown, very glossy on the head; back and wings duller and 

 browner on the neck all round ; the chin and throat almost quite 

 black, but a good deal speckled with white ; this white speck- 

 ling extending as a stripe at the si<Jes of the neck behind the 

 ear-coverts ; two short thick tufts on either side of the occiput, 

 which, though scarcely noticeable in the dried skin, are erected 

 at pleasure in the live bird ; behind the eye for about 1/4 inches 

 a broad streak of orange and reddish-yellow silky glistening 

 feathers ; the inner web of the sixth primary, and almost the 

 whole of the subsequent primaries and secondaries, pure white ; 

 tertiaries and wing-coverts unicolorous with the back ; the whole 

 breast, abdomen and vent, satin-white, a little tinged with 

 greyish-brown about the vent ; tail unicolorous with the back, 

 and on either side of it, and of the tail-coverts a good deal of 

 white appears ; sides and flanks mottled with blackish-brown, 

 with traces of a rufous or orange striation. 



In full breeding plumage the sides and flanks are very strongly 

 streaked with orange-red, and the parts indicated as speckled 



