468 BRITISH BIRDS. 



PODICEPS MINOR. 

 LITTLE GREBE. 



(PLATE 39.) 



Colymbus minor, Briss. Orn. vi. p. 56 (17GO) ; Omel. Syst. Nat. i. p. 591 (1788) ; et 

 auctorum plurimorum (Latham), (Bewick), (Temminck), (Bonaparte), (Nan- 

 mann), (Stephens), (Sclby), (Yarrell), (Montagu}, (Fleming), (Jenyns), (Gould), 

 (Heufflin), (Sioinhoe), (Gurney), &c. 



Colymbus fluviatilis, Briss. Orn. vi. p. 59 (1760) ; Tunstall, Orn. Brit. p. 3 (1771). 



Colymbus fluviatilis nigricans, Briss. Orn. vi. p. 62 (17GO). 



Colymbus auritus, y, Linn. Syst. Nat. i. p. 223 (1766). 



Colymbus pyrenaicus, Lapeir. K. Vet. Ak. Nya Handl. iii. p. Ill (1782). 



Podiceps minutus, I LM Q ^ ^ Suppl j ^ (17g7)< 



Podiceps hebridialis, 1 



Colymbus hebridicus (Lath.), Gmel Syst. Nat. i. p. 594 (1788). 



Podiceps minor (Briss.), Lath. Ind. Orn. ii. p. 784 (1790). 



Colymbus philippensis, Bonn. Encycl. Meth. i. p. 58, pi. 46. fig. 3 (1790). 



Colymbus minutus (Lath.), Pall. Zoogr. Rosso- Asiat. ii. p. 358 (1826). 



Podiceps novae-hollandise, Steph. Shaitis Gen. Zool. xiii. pt. 1, p. 18 (1825). 



Podiceps noctivagus, Temm. Tall. Meth. p. 100 (1836). 



Podiceps gularis, Gould, Proc. Zool. Soc. 1836, p. 145. 



Sylbeocyclus minor (Briss), Bonap. Comp. List B. Eur. fy N. Amer. p. 64 (1838). 



Sylbeocyclus europseus, Macgitt. Man. Brit. B. ii. p. 205 (1842). 



Podiceps philippensis (Bonn.), Gray, Cat. Mamm. fy B. Nepal, p. 147 (1846). 



Tachybaptus minor (Briss.), Reichenb. Av. Syst. Nat., Natatores, pi. 2 (1849). 



Tachybaptus philippensis (Bonn.), \ 



Tachybaptus capensis, > Bonap. Compt. Rend, xliii. p. 775 (1857). 



Tachybaptus gularis (Gould), 



Podiceps (Sylbeocyclus) tricolor, Gray, Proc. Zool. Soc. 1860, p. 366. 



Podiceps fluviatilis (Briss), Degl. $ Gerbe, Orn. Eur. ii. p. 587 (1867). 



Podiceps albescens, Mandetti,fide Blanford, Stray Feath. v. p. 486 (1877). 



The Little Grebe is by far the commonest British species of this genus. 

 It is a resident in all districts suited to its habits both in England, Wales, 

 Scotland, and Ireland, extending to the Outer Hebrides and the Orkneys. 

 To the Shetlands it is only a rare winter visitor from Norway. It appears 

 only occasionally to breed in the Channel Islands, where it is best known 

 as a winter visitor. 



The Little Grebe is confined to the Old World, where it is a resident 

 south of about lat. 42 in the subtropical portion of both the northern and 

 the southern hemisphere, and in the tropics where a somewhat similar cli- 

 mate can be found at a high elevation. In Western Europe, in consequence of 

 the influence of the Gulf-stream, its breeding-range extends twenty degrees 



