878 PODICIPES 



Grdbe huppd, French ; Mergulhao de crista, Portug. ; Somor- 

 mujo, Span. ; Svasso maggiore, Ital. ; Gfehaubter-Steissfuss, German ; 

 Fuut, Dutch ; Toppet-Lappedykker, Dan. ; Toplom, Norweg. ; 

 Skcigg-Dopping, Swed. ; Silkkikuikka, Finn. ; Gfagara-khokhlataia, 

 Russ. 



$ ad. (Volga). Crown and occipital tufts greyish -greenish black ; from 

 the base of the upper mandible a reddish line passes over the eye to the 

 white on the cheeks ; chin and fore part of the face white ; ruff light 

 brownish red anteriorly ; greyish black posteriorly ; hind neck greyish black, 

 the fore part white on the sides, tinged with buffy brown ; upper parts 

 greyish black with some brownish grey margins ; anterior edge of wing, 

 the short secondaries, and a few scapulars white ; under parts silvery 

 white, the flanks buffy brown ; bill blackish brown, yellowish at the base 

 and along the lower mandible ; a bare space from the eye to the mouth 

 dusky green ; legs dusky green externally, greenish yellow internally ; 

 iris carmine-red. Culmen 2*1, wing 7 '4, tarsus 2'5 inch. Female smaller 

 and with the ruff and occipital tufts less developed. 



Hob. Central and Southern Europe, north to Britain and 

 Scandinavia ; Africa, south to the Cape of Good Hope ; Asia, 

 north to Mongolia, east to Japan, and south to India ; Austral ia r 

 Tasmania, and New Zealand. 



Essentially a water bird this Grebe is an expert swimmer 

 and diver, but clumsy on land. When alarmed it seeks safety 

 by diving, but on the wing it is tolerably swift. Its food 

 consists of small fish, frogs, insects, and larvae, which it captures 

 chiefly under water. Its note is a loud, deep keck, keck, keck, and 

 its pairing cry a loud kreworr, kreworr. Its nest is a heap of 

 floating aquatic herbage, and its 3 or 4 eggs, which are usually 

 deposited in May, are dull chalky white with a yellowish green 

 tinge, and measure about 2'20 by 1'44. 



1214. RED-NECKED GREBE. 

 PODICIPES GRISEIGENA. 



Podicipes griseigena (Bodd.), Tabl. PI. Enl. p. 55 (1783) ; Dresser, viii. 

 p. 639, pi. 630 ; Ogilvie Grant, Cat. B. Br. Mus. xxvi. p. 539 ; 

 Saunders, p. 719 ; Kidgway, p. 5 ; Lilford, vi. p. 114, pi. 49 ; P. 

 rubricollis, Gmel. Syst. Nat. i. p. 592 (1788) ; Gould, B. of E. v. 

 pi. 389 ; id. B. of Gt. Brit. v. pi. 39 ; Naum. ix. p. 720, Taf. 243 ; 

 Hewitson, ii. p. 443, pi. cxx. fig. 1 ; Seebohm, B. Jap. Emp. 

 p. 364 ; P. JwlbaUli, Keinhardt, Vidensk. Meddel. 1853, p. 76 ; 

 Ogilvie Grant, Cat. B. Br. Mus. xxvi. p.. 542; Tacz. F. 0. Sib. 0. 

 p. 1253 ; Ridgway, p. 5. 



