204 PODICIPINJE. PODICEPS. SYLBEOCYCLUS. 



nest, and laying from five to seven yellowish-white eggs, an 

 inch and three-fourths in length, and an inch and a quarter in 

 breadth. In winter it is not extremely rare in Scotland, and 

 occurs equally in England, where it has sometimes been found 

 breeding. 



Horned Grebe. Horned Dabchick. 



Colymbus cornutus, Gmel. Syst. Nat. i. 591. Podiceps 

 cornutus, Lath. Ind. Ornith. ii. 782. Podiceps cornutus, 

 Temm. Man. d'Ornith. ii. 721. Podiceps cornutus, Sclavo- 

 nian Grebe, MacGillivray, Brit. Birds, v. 



274. PODICEPS AURITUS. EARED GREBE. 



Male about thirteen inches long, with the bill much shorter 

 than the head, nearly an inch in length, rather slender, de- 

 pressed at the base, compressed and a little recurved toward 

 the end, black tinged with blue ; two slight dusky occipital 

 tufts, a short black ruff, and a tuft of elongated orange-red 

 feathers from behind each eye ; upper parts greyish -black, 

 lower silvery-white ; sides light-red streaked with black. Fe- 

 male similar, but somewhat smaller. Young without tufts, 

 and having the upper parts blackish-brown, the lower silvery- 

 white, the sides dusky, the throat and part of the cheeks 

 white, and a portion of the fore-neck brownish-grey. 



Male, 13, 22, 5 T \, J, 1 T ^. 1 T 9 *, T V Female, 12, 20. 



This species is said to frequent the sea less than the others. 

 It is abundant in the northern parts of Europe, and occurs also 

 in America. In winter, it is not rare in many parts of Eng- 

 land, but I have very seldom met with it in (Scotland. Mon- 

 tagu states that it bred in the fens of Lincolnshire, making a 

 floating nest, and laying four or five white eggs. 



Colymbus auritus, Linn. Syst. Nat. i. 222. Podiceps auri- 

 tus, Lath. Ind. Ornith. ii. 781. Podiceps auritus, Temm. Man. 

 d'Ornith. ii. 725. Podiceps auritus, Eared Grebe, MacGilli- 

 vray, Brit. Birds, v. 



GENUS CXXXVIII. SYLBEOCYCLUS. DABCHICK. 



This genus differs from Podiceps chiefly in having the 

 body short and full ; the bill not so long as the head, mode- 

 rately stout, tapering, much compressed, and pointed. Upper 

 mandible with the dorsal line straight and slightly decimate 

 to the middle, then convex, the ridge narrow, the nasal 

 groove half the length of the bill, the edges sharp and a 

 little inclinate, the tip direct, acute ; lower mandible with 

 the angle long and very narrow, the dorsal line ascending 

 and straight, the edges very sharp and direct, the tip acute. 



