BRITISH BIRDS. 171 



THE SCLAVONIAN GREBE. 



WIXTF.R Pr.VMAGK. 



THE bill is pale blue, with reddish edges: lore 

 and orbits red: irides bright yellow; upper part of 

 the head, hinder part of the neck, scapulars, and 

 rump, dark sooty, or mouse-coloured brown: fea- 

 thers on the back nearly of the same colour, but 

 glossy, and with greyish edges : ridge of the wings 

 and secondary quills white; the rest of the wing 

 dusky. There is a pale spot before each eye; 

 cheeks and throat white : fore part of the neck 

 light brown; and the breast and belly white and 

 glossy, like satin: thighs and vent covered with 

 dirty white downy feathers : legs white behind)* 



