POD WIPES 879 



Gr&be jou-gris, French ; Zambullidor, Span. ; Svasso collo- 

 rosso, Ital. ; Rothhalsigcr-Lappcntauclier, German ; Roodhalsfuut, 

 Dutch ; liodhalset-Lappedykker, Dan. ; Graastrubet-Lappedykker, 

 Norweg. ; Grdstrupig-Dopping, Swed. ; Harmaakulkku-itiku, 

 Finn. ; Pogannka-krasnochew, Russ. 



$ ad. (N. Russia). Crown, nape, and hind neck black ; chin, upper 

 throat, and cheeks ashy grey, slightly bordered with white ; ruff but 

 slightly developed ; fore part and sides of neck rich brownish red ; upper 

 parts and wings blackish, the former with paler margins ; outer secon- 

 daries white ; under parts silvery white, the flanks streaked with greyish ; 

 bill black, the base of the gape yellow ; legs externally greyish black, inter- 

 nally yellow ; iris carmine-red. Culmen T9, wing 7 '2, tarsus 2 '2 inch. 

 Female similar but a trifle smaller. In winter the crown, nape, and 

 upper parts are greyer, the upper throat white and the neck brownish 

 grey. 



Hal. Europe, north to Greenland, south in winter to North 

 Africa ; Asia, north to Kamchatka and the Commander Islands, 

 south to Japan ; America from the fur countries south in 

 winter to Pennsylvania ; a winter visitant to the British Islands. 



In general habits it resembles P. cristatus, and like that 

 species frequents inland lakes in summer, and rivers and the 

 sea coast on passage and in winter, but it is a lighter and 

 quicker bird, and takes wing more readily. Its nest and eggs 

 also resemble those of P. cristatus, but the eggs, 3 to 4 in 

 number, and laid in May, are smaller, measuring about 2*0 

 by 1-35. 



Examples from North America and Eastern Asia are, as a 

 rule, larger, and have a longer bill, and have therefore by 

 several authors been separated under the name of P. holbcelli 

 (first described from Greenland), but I do not see any valid 

 reason for separating them even subspecifically. 



1215. SCLAVONIAN GREBE. 

 PODICIPES AURITUS. 



Podicipes auritus (Linn.), Syst. Nat. p. 222 (1766) ; Gould, B. of Gt, 

 Brit. v. pi. 40 ; Dresser, viii. p. 645, pi. 631 ; Tacz. F. 0. Sib. 0. 

 p. 1256 ; Ogilvie Grant. Cat. B. Br. Mus. p. 527 ; Ridgway, p. 5 ; 

 Saunders. p. 721 ; Lilford, vi. p. 115, pi. 50 ; P. cornutus, Gmel. 

 Syst. Nat. i. p. 591|(1788) ; Naum. ix. p. 739, pi. 244 ; Hewitson, 

 ii. p. 444, pi. cxxi. fig. 3 ; Gould, B. of E. v. pi. 390 ; David and 

 Oust. Ois. Chine, p. 513 ; Seebohm, B. Jap. Enip. p. 367. 



