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visitant. 
392 NATATORES. PODICEPS. GREBE. 
RED-NECKED GREBE. 
Popiceps rupricottis, Lath. 
PLATE LXXII. 
Podiceps rubricollis, Lath. Ind. Orn. 2. 783. sp. 6.—Steph. Shaw’s Zool. 
13. 8.—Flem. Br. Anim. 1. 131. sp. 207.—Faun. Amer. Boreal. 2. 411. 
No. 175. 
Colymbus rubricollis, Gmel. Syst. 1. 592 
Colymbus subcristatus, Gmel. Syst. 1. 590. 
Le Grébe 4 Joues grises, Buff: Ois. 8. 241.—Id. Pl. Enl. 931. 
Grébe Jou-gris, Temm. Man. d’Ornith. 2. 720. 
Graukehliger Steissfuss, Meyer, 'Tasschenb. Deut. 2. 429. 
Red-necked Grebe, Penn. Arct. Zool. 2. 499. C.—Lath. Syn. 5. 288.—Id. 
Sup. 260. pl. 118.—Lewin’s Br. Birds, 5. pl. 199.—Mont. Orn. Dict. and 
Sup.—Bewick’s Br. Birds, ed. 1826, 2. p. t. 161.—Shaw’s Zool. 13. 8.— 
Rennie’s Mont. Orn. p. 408. 
Colymbus Parotis, Gmel. Syst. 1. 592.—-Young. 
Most of our authors speak of the Red-necked Grebe as a 
very rare British species, but more, I am inclined to think, 
from a want of knowledge of its habits during its sojourn 
with us, than from the real scarcity of the bird, as in Nor- 
thumberland I have met with it at least as frequently as any 
of the other species. It differs, however, from them in being 
much oftener seen in the salt than in fresh water; and from 
the facility with which it can escape in the open sea, and 
the little attention paid to so nimble a diver by the wildfowl 
shooter, it is seldom procured, unless expressly sought for. 
The several specimens I have obtained were all killed during 
the winter and early spring months, therefore I conceive it 
to be only a visitant to us during that period; and this opi- 
nion seems strengthened by the silence of all our own writers 
as to its breeding in the British Islands. In size it is inter- 
mediate between the Horned and the Crested Grebes, of 
which latter species PENNANT supposed it might be a variety. 
A comparison, however, between these two must at once 
convince any one of that not being the case, the distinctive 
characters of the red-necked species being decidedly promi- 
