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PODICIPIDiE — THE GREBES — PODILYMBUS. 



441 



g from 

 a from 

 1.50 in 



J poiliccps. 



le culmen 

 jrcd turuii- 



Had. Greater part of South America, whole of Middle America, West Indies, and temperate 

 North Anjerica, hrecdiny neiirly tlirou-^hout its range. South to Brazil, Bueiios Ayres, and Chili, 

 north to British Provinces. BermiKlas. 



Sp. Char. Adult, hreediug-idmuuje : Chin, throat, and a spot at the base of the nmndilde. 

 black ; rest of the head and neck brownisli },'ray, darker on the pileum and nape, ligliter on the 

 sides of the heatl, the malar region light ashy, streaked with dusky. Ujiper parts unil'ornj dusky 

 grayish brown, the remiges paler, the inner webs of the secondaries tijjped with white ; lower ]tart» 

 grayish white, everywhere spotted with dusky grayish. Bill milk-white, crossed past the middle 



Summer adult. 



ge, but bill 



'odicrpn Will"!" 

 ITtiO, C3). 

 15. IS.'iO, »»• 



37. _ UuKiw. 



Man. II. IS"'. 

 24, pi. 483. 

 K..p. X. 18.'.0, 



1 RiMicrnl a b"''' 

 iUiin." (TAC7.A- 



l)y a black band, the terminal portion more bluish ; eyelids white ; naked lores bluish ; iris rich 

 dark brown, with a narrow outer ring of ochraceous-whiti', and an inner thread-like ring of pure 

 white ; tarsi and toes greenish slate-lilack on the outer, and plumbeous on the inner side.' U'inler 

 pluvuvjn: Head and neck dull brownisli, darker on the |)ileum and nape, and becoming white on 

 the chin and throat (sometimes also on the malar region); hiwer parts silvery white, brownish later- 

 ally and posteriorly ; upper parts as in the summer jduniage. Bill horn-color, becoming blackish 

 basally and on the culmen; lower mandilde more lilaceous, with a dusky lateral stri])e ; iris of 

 three distinct colors, disposed in concentric rings, the first (around the pupil) clear milk-white, 

 tiie next dark olive-brown, the outer pale ochraccous-brown, the dark ring reticidated into the 

 lighter ; tarsi and toes greenish slate, the joints darker.* Young, first jilumnge : Similar to the 

 winter I'vess, but side and under part of the head white, indefinitely striju'd witii brown, tlie throat 

 sointitimes immaculate. Dowuij young : Head and neck distinctly striped with while and black ; 

 a spot of rufous on the middle of tiie crown, one on each side the occiput, and one on the upper 

 part of the naiie ; the lattev confluent with two white stripes running down the nape, the others 

 entirely surrounded with black ; upper parts blackish dusky, marked with four longitudinal stripes 

 or lines of grayish white running the whole lengtJi of the body ; lower parts immaculate white 

 nutlially, dusky grayish anteriorly, laterally, and posteriorly. 



Total length, about 13.25 to 15.(K) inches ; extent, 20.00-23.00 ; wing, 4.50-5.00 ; culmen, .75 ; 

 di'|il,h of bill at base, .45 ; tarsus, 1.40; middle toe without rlaw, 1.80. 



We are entirely unable to disoovir any ttuigible dill'erence between several South American 

 ixainples, in different stages of ])l>;ntage, and North American specimens, and can therefore see no 

 reason for admitting the so-called /'. nnturrtkuit. 



The " Pi(MU)illp(l " or "Carolina Giebn " is an exclusively Americr,n .species, and 

 is widely distributed. It is found throughout South ami North Anu'rica from Capo 

 Horn to the Mackenzie lliver, and occurs on the Pacific as well as on the Atlantic 

 I'oast. It is resident in Santo Domingo, Cuba, Jamaica, Trinidad, and probably in 

 most of the West India Islands, is also resident in Central America, and probably 

 ill Mexico. To wliat extent it is anywhere resident, or only a visitor, is with 



• Fresh colors of an adult fomalo killed March 24 nt Carson City, Ncv. 

 ^ From a siwcinien killed Novenilier 18 at Trackeo Meadows, Ncv. 

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