68 PATAGONIAN EXPEDITIONS I ZOOLOGY. 



Of the American grebe as he met with it in Patagonia Mr. J. B. 

 Hatcher writes (MSS. notes): "Abundant in marshes and streams all 

 over Patagonia, and of the same general habits as the "hell diver (P. 

 podicipes}." 



" In cruising about the bay (Halt Bay) we saw numerous individuals 

 of a little grebe, the Podiceps rollandi, common in the Strait and Chan- 

 nels, but very difficult to shoot, on account of the rapidity with which it 

 dives, and the impossibility of predicting in what direction it will come up. 

 One was at length shot, and I was struck by the exquisite ruby red color 

 of the eye. They possess an exceedingly unpleasant fishy odour, which 

 becomes very perceptible in the process of skinning them." (Cunn. Nat. 

 Hist. Str. Magell., p. 348, 1871.) 



The bird referred to by Cunningham as Podiceps rollandi is undoubt- 

 edly Podicipes americanus. 



PODICIPES ROLLANDI Gould. 



Podiceps rolland, Quoy & Gaim. Voy. Uranie, p. 133, pi. 36 (1824: 



Falkland Islands). 



Podiceps rollandi, Gould, Voy. 'Beagle,' Birds, p. 137, part (1841 : Falk- 

 land Isl.); Gray, List B. part iii. p. 151, pt. (1844); id. Gen. B. III. 



p. 633 (1846); Reichenb. Syst. Av. Natatores, pi. 13. figs. 751-752 



(1848); Gould, P. Z. S. 1859, p. 98 (Falkland Isl.); Scl. P. Z. S. 



1860, p. 389; Abbott, Ibis, 1861, p. 162; Scl. & Salv. Exot. Orn. II. 



p. 190 part (1869); iid. Nomencl. Av. Neotr. p. 150 (1873); Oust. 



Sci. Miss. Cap Horn, Oiseaux, p. 233, part (1891). 

 Rollandia leucotis, Cuv., teste Bonap. C. R. xlii. p. 775 (1856). 

 Podiceps rollandii, Schl. Mus. Pays-Bas, Urinat. p. 42 (1867: Falkland 



Isl.). 

 Podiceps leucotis, Cuv.; teste Gray, Hand-List B. III. p. 94, no. 10755 



(1871). 

 Podicipes rollandi, Grant, Cat. B. Brit. Mus. XXVI. p. 526 (1898); 



Sharpe, Hand-List B. I. p. 114 (1899). 



GENERAL DESCRIPTION. 



Size. Total length, about 14 inches. 



