COL YMBUS PODICIPES 877 



In habits it does not differ from its allies, but is as a ruk- 

 rather more shy and wary. Its cry is very loud, wild, and 

 weird, resembling that of a child being tortured. Its food 

 consists chiefly of fish, which it captures by diving, and it is 

 also said to devour small crabs. Its nest is a mass of herbage 

 close to the water, usually on an island or the borders of an 

 inland lake, and its eggs are dull brownish olivaceous, spotted 

 and - blotched with blackish brown, and measure about 2'49 

 by 2-26. 



1212. WHITE-BILLED DIVER. 

 COLYMBUS ADAMSI. 



ColymbuB adamsi, G. R. Gray, P.Z.S. 1859, p. 167 ; Collett, Ibis, 1894, 

 p. 269, pi. viii. ; Seebohm, B. Jap. Emp. p. 362 ; Tacz. F. 0. Sib. 

 0. p. 1259 ; Dresser, ix. p. 413, pi. 722 ; Ogilvie Grant, Cat. B. Br. 

 Mils, xx vi. p. 500 ; Saunders, p. 711 ; Ridgway, p. 7 ; Lilford, vi. 

 p. 102, pi. 45. 



Bolchoi-Gagdra, Russ. ; OvanJcets joulcu> Chukch. 



cJ ad. (Russian America.) Differs from C. glacialis in having the white 

 spots on the back and wings larger, the upper throat collar with fewer and 

 larger stripes, and the bill long, straight, and whitish yellow. Culmen 4'3, 

 gape 4'7, wing 15'25, tail 2 '6, tarsus 3'5 inch. 



Hob. North-western North America and Northern Asia, 

 ranging west to Norway ; in winter occurring south to Japan 

 and as a rare straggler in Britain. 



In general habits this species does not differ from C. glacialis, 

 and its eggs resemble those of that species. 



PODICIPES, Lath, 1787. 



1213. GREAT CRESTED GREBE. 

 PODICIPES CRISTATUS. 



Podicipes cristatus (Linn.), Syst. Nat. i. p. 222 (1766) ; (Naum.), ix. 

 p. 686, Taf. 242 ; Hewitson, ii. p. 441, pi. cxx. fig. 2 ; Gould, B. 

 of E. v. pi. 388 ; id. B. of Gt. Brit. v. pi. 38 ; Dresser, viii. p. 629, 

 pi. 629 ; David and Oust. Ois. Chine, p. 514 ; Ogilvie Grant, Cat. B. 

 Br. Mus. xxvi. p. 544 ; Tacz. F. 0. Sib. 0. p. 1251 ; Blanf. F. Brit. 

 Ind. Birds, iv. p. 473 ; Saunders, p. 717 ; Eidgway, p. 5 ; Lil- 

 ford, vi. p. 109, pi. 48 ; P. australis, Gould, P.Z.S. 1844, p. 135 ; 

 id. B. of Austral, vii. pi. 80. 



