POD WIPES 881 



$ ad. (Sarepta). Differs from P. auritus in having the head, neck, and 

 upper parts black ; a broad stripe from the eye covering the auriculars 

 warm golden yellow, the flanks fox-red, and the lower abdomen greyish 

 black ; bill upcurved, black, reddish at the base ; legs dull greenish black ; 

 iris bright red. Culmen 0*92, wing 4'9, tarsus T6 inch. Sexes alike. In 

 winter the golden stripe is absent, and the chin and throat are white. 



Hob. Central and Southern Europe, rare in Sweden, Finland , 

 and Britain, but has bred in Denmark ; Africa in winter ; Asia 

 north to Dauria, east to Japan, south to China and India. 



In habits and nidification this Grebe resembles P. auritus. 

 Its call-note is a soft," clear bib, bib, and its pairing cry a clear 

 bide wide wide wide wide. Its 4 to 5 eggs, which are laid in 

 May, resemble those of P. auritus, and measure about T6(> 

 by 1-17. 



1217. LITTLE GREBE. 

 PODICIPES FLUVIATILIS. 



Podicipes fluviatilis (Tunstall), Orn. Brit. p. 3 (1771) ; Dresser, viii. 

 p. 659, pi. 633 ; Ogilvie Grant, Cat. B. Br. Mus. xxvi. p. 507 ; 

 Saunders, p. 725 ; P. minor (Gmel.), Syst. Nat. i. p. 591 1788 j 

 (Naum.), ix. p. 785, Taf. 247 ; Hewitson, ii. p. 446, pi. cxxi. fig. 1 ; 

 Gould, B. of E. v. pi. 392 ; id. B. of Gt. Brit. v. pi. 42 ; Seebohm, 

 B. Jap. Emp. p. 367 ; Lilford, vi. 119, pi. 52. 



Le Castagneux, French ; Mergulhao al$a-cu, Portug. ; Zam- 

 bullidor, Span. ; Tuffetto, Ital. ; Kleiner- Steissfuss, German \ 

 Dodaers, Dutch; Lille- Lappedykker, Dan.; Liden-Toplom, 

 Norweg. ; Smd-Dopping, Swed. ; Pikku-uikku, Finn. ; El-ghotis, 

 Moor. ; Kaitsumuri, Jap. 



ad. (Alexandria). Crown, nape, hind neck, chin, and lores blackish 

 brown ; sides of head, neck, and entire throat rich chestnut-red ; upper 

 parts blackish tinged with grey ; short secondaries white, externally mar- 

 gined with dark grey ; breast and flanks blackish grey ; rest of under 

 parts dark silvery grey ; bill blackish, the base of the gape lemon-yellow ; 

 legs and feet dull horny greenish ; iris bright brown. Culmen 0'97, 

 wing 3'9, tarsus 1'4 inch. Sexes alike. In winter the rufous is lacking, 

 the chin and upper throat being white, the sides of head and lower throat 

 rufous buff. 



Hob. Europe generally, from Scandinavia and Britain to 

 North Africa ; Asia Minor, and Central Asia east to Japan, 

 but not ranging north to Siberia. In India and S. Africa it is 

 replaced by a nearly allied subspecies, P. capensis, Lichtenstein, 

 (P. albipennis, Sharpe). 



