AVES PODICIPEDID^E. 



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Geographical Range. The world at large. 



FIG. 29. 



Podicipcs domiiiicus. Female. Showing relative length of primaries and secondaries. From 

 material in the American Museum of Natural History. Natural size. 



PODICIPES DOMINI cus (Linnaeus). 



Le Grebe de riviere de S. Domingue, Briss. Orn. VI. p. 64, pi. v. fig. 2 



(1760). 

 Colynibiis dominions, Linn. Syst. Nat. I. p. 223 (1766) ex Briss.; Licht. 



Verz. Doubl. p. 87 (1823: Montevideo). 

 Le Castagneux de Saint-Domingue, Buff. Hist. Nat. Ois. VIII. p. 248 



(1781). 



White-winged Grebe, Lath. Gen. Syn. III. pt. i. p. 291 (1785). 

 Podiceps dominicus, Lath. Ind. Orn. II. p. 785 (1790); Gray, Gen. B. iii. 



p. 633 (1846); Burm. J. b. O. 1860, p. 268 (Mendoza) ; id. La Plata 



Reis. II. p. 521 (1861); Schl. Mus. Pays-Bas, VI. Urinat. p. 47 



(1867: Chile); Baird, Brewer & Ridgw. Water Birds, N. Amer. II. 



p. 438 (1884); Burm. An. Mus. Nac. Buenos Aires, III. pt. X. p. 



249 (1888: Patagonia). 

 Colymbus dominicensis, D'Orb. in Ramon de la Sagra Hist. Cuba, Ois. p. 



282 (1839). Scott, Auk, VIII. p. 354 (1891) (Jamaica breeding 



September). 

 Tachybaptus dominicus, Bonap. C. R. xlii. p. 775 (1856); Scl. & Salv. 



