EARED GREBE. 419 



M. Nilsson says it breeds in Sweden, but only rarely. 

 Linnaeus, in his tour in Lapland, mentions having met 

 with it near Lycksele, and in other parts of the north of 

 Europe it is said to inhabit lakes, rivers, and pools, where- 

 ever aquatic herbage is abundant. It is found in Russia, 

 Siberia, and Germany ; it is rare in Holland and France, 

 but visits the lakes of Switzerland, Provence, Italy, Corfu, 

 and Sicily. M. Temminck, in the 4th part of his Manual 

 says it is rather common in the Adriatic, and in the Bay 

 of Cagliari, one of the ports of Sardinia. Messrs. Dickson 

 and Eoss sent the Zoological Society a specimen from 

 Trebizond. Finally, this bird is said to inhabit the 

 Falkland Islands and some parts of the United States. 



The adult male in summer has the beak of a dusky- 

 lead colour, almost black, the tip of the lower mandible 

 only being horny- white ; the irides red ; head and neck 

 all round nearly black ; chin speckled with grey ; from 

 behind the eye over the ear-coverts a triangular patch of red- 

 dish-chestnut; back, and all the upper surface of the body, 

 dark brown ; secondary wing-feathers white, but scarcely 

 seen unless the wing is extended ; breast, and under 

 surface of the body, pure and shining silvery-white ; sides 

 under the wings, and the flanks, chestnut, mixed with 

 dusky lines ; legs dark green on the outside, lighter green 

 within. The whole length twelve inches. From the 

 carpal joint to the end of the wing five inches. 



Females and young birds in winter so nearly resemble 

 those of the so-called Dusky Grebe, figured and described 

 in the account given of the last species, except in size, and 

 in the form of the beak, as to make another description un- 

 necessary. 



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