394 NATATORES. PODICEPS. GREBE. 
lustre, and faintly spotted with darker grey. Sides and 
flanks grey, the feathers open in texture. Five or six 
of the secondary quills white, forming a patch or specu- 
lum. Quills hair-brown. Legs and toes greyish-black, 
with a greenish tinge. 
CRESTED GREBE. 
Popicers cristatus, Lath. 
PLATE LXXIII. Fries. 1. anp 2. 
Podiceps cristatus, Lath. Ind. Orn. 2. 780. 1.—Steph. Shaw’s Zool. 13. 3.— 
Flem. Br. Anim. 1. 131. sp. 206.—Faun. Amer. Boreal. 2. 410. No. 174. 
Colymbus cristatus, Linn. Syst. 1. 222. 7.—Gmel. Syst. 1. 589. 
Colymbus major cristatus et cornutus, Raii Syn. 124. A. 2.—Will. 257. 
t. 61. 
Colymbus cornutus, Briss. Orn. 6. 45. No. 4. t. 5. f. 1. 
Le Grébe cornu, Buff: Ois. 8. 235. t. 19.—Id. Pl. Enl. 400. 
Grébe huppé, Temm. Man. d’Orn. 2. 717.—Cuv. Reg. Anim. 1. 509.— 
Lesson, Man. d’Ornith. 2. 356. 
Gehaubter Steissfuss, Bechst. Naturg. Deut. 4. 533.—Meyer, Tasschenb. 
Deut. 2. 426. 
Greater Crested and Horned Douker, Albin’s Birds, 1. t. 81.— Will. (Angl.) 
340. t. 61. 
Crested Grebe, Br. Zool. 2. 497. No. 223.—Arct. Zool. 2. 498. A.—Lath. 
Syn. 5. 281. 1.—Lewin’s Br. Birds, 5. pl. 106.—Mont. Ornith. Dict. 1.— 
Bewick’s Br. Birds, ed. 1826, 2. p. t. 153.—Shaw’s Zool. 13. 3. : 
Colymbus urinator, Linn. Syst. 1. 223. 9.—.Gmel. Syst. 1. 593. 
Colymbus, Briss. Orn. 6. 34. 1. t. 3. f. 1. 
Colymbus cinereus major, Raii Syn. 124. A. 1. 
Colymbus major Aldrov. Raii Syn. 125. 6.— Will. 256. 
Le Grébe, et le Grébe huppé, Buff: Ois. 8. 233. et 237.—Id. Pl. Enl. 944. 
et 941. 
Greater Loon or Arsefoot, Will. (Angl.) 339. 51.—Edw. t. 360. 
Tippet Grebe, Br. Zool. 2. 496. No. 222. t. 78.—Lath. Syn. 5. 283. 2.— 
Bewick’s Br. Birds, ed. 1826, 2. p. t. 155. 
Provinc1AL.—Gaunt, Cargoose, Loon. 
Tue Crested Grebe is one of the largest of the genus, and 
is an indigenous species, breeding annually on the pools 
amidst the fens, on the moors of Shropshire and Cheshire, 
and on a few of the northern Scottish lakes. During the 
winter, when the waters of the interior of the country are 
frozen, it retires to the mouths of rivers, and to the line of 
sea-coast, where it obtains the necessary supply of fish and 
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