AVES PODICIPEDID^. 



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Head : Forehead and crown black with a greenish gloss ; sides of head 

 ashy grey. 



Neck : Upper part blackish with a green gloss, strongest at the portion 

 nearest the head. Chin and throat dull sooty black. Rest of the neck 

 greyish ash, shading into brownish grey in the region where the neck joins 

 the body. 



Back : Brownish black with a slight greenish gloss ; sides of the lower 

 back and rump white. 



Wing : General color like the back. The inner webs of the outer pri- 

 maries chiefly white, increasing so that the inner primaries have white 

 inner webs. The secondaries are white with a brown band on the mar- 

 gin of the outer web. Under wing-coverts white. 



Lower parts as described, with the chest, sides and flanks washed with 

 shining reddish brown. The thighs and vent as well as the under tail 

 coverts are dusky. 



Tail : Like the back but more dusky. 



" Iris orange ; bill black with whitish tip ; feet black tinged with greyish." 

 (George N. Lawrence.) 



FIG. 31. 



Podicipes dominicus. Immature female. From material in the American Museum of Natural 

 History. ^ natural size. 



Adults at other than breeding season, have the top of the head, neck 

 and upper parts as well as the foreneck and chest much browner, the chin 

 and throat being white. 



Geographical Range. The Greater Antilles, Southern Texas, Central 

 America and South America to Patagonia. 



