BRITISH BIRDS. 



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THE SCLAVONIAN GREBE. 



(Podiceps CornutuS) Lath. (jrrcbc cornu on 

 Temm. 



MEASURES about thirteen inches in length, and 

 twenty-two from tip to tip of the wings, and weighs 

 nineteen ounces. The under mandible, towards 

 the base, is red, the rest of the bill black, with 

 white tips ; it measures, on the upper ridge, scarcely 

 an inch : lore and irides red : the head is thickly set 

 and enlarged with feathers of a sooty black, except 

 two large, loose, and spreading orange-coloured 

 tufts, which take their rise from the base of the 

 upper mandible, flow backward, and nearly meet at 

 their tips : the back of the neck and upper parts of 

 the plumage are black; the under parts glossy 

 white : the sides and front of the neck rusty ches- 

 nut: legs greenish black. The male and female 

 are nearly alike. 



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