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neck, shining black. From behind and below the eyes 
on each side, is a tuft of long slender shining orange- 
buff feathers which cover the ears, and nearly meet be- 
hind. Throat, neck, sides of the breast and upper plu- 
mage, deep shining greyish-black. Flanks and sides 
reddish-brown, mixed with greyish-black. Secondaries 
white. Under plumage white, with a silky lustre. 
Tarsi clove-brown, on the inside paler. 
The description of the young of the preceding species may 
serve for that of the present one, the only points of dif- 
ference having been noted in the above account of the 
Eared Grebe. 
LITTLE GREBE. 
Popiceps minor, Lath. 
PLATE LXXV. 
Podiceps minor, Steph. Shaw’s Zool. 13. 13. pl. 2.—Flem. Br. Anim. 1. 132. 
sp 210. 
Grébe castagneux, Temm. Man. d’Ornith. 2. 727. 
Kleiner Steissfuss, Bechst. Naturg. Deut. 4. 565.—Meyer, Tasschenb. Deut. 
2. 436. 
Little Grebe, Steph. Zool. 13. 13. pl. 2.—F lem. Br. Anim. 1. 132. No. 210. 
Dabchick, Rennie’s Mont. Ornith. Dict. 126. 
Podiceps Hebridicus, Lath. Ind. Orn. 2. 785. sp. 11. 
Colymbus Hebridicus, Gmel. Syst. 1. 594. 
Black Chin Grebe, Br. Zool 2. 503. No. 227.—Lath. Syn. 5. 292.—Lewin’s > Old. 
Br. Birds, 5. pl. 201.—Moné. Orn. Dict. and Sup.— Sowerby’s Br. Mis. 
pl. 70.—Bewick’s Br. Birds, ed. 1826, 2. 164. 
Podiceps minor, Lath. Ind. Orn. 2. 784. sp. 9.—Raii Syn. 125. A. 3. 
Colymbus minor, Gmel. Syst. 1. 591. 
Colymbus fluviatilis, Briss. Orn. 6. 59. 9. 
Le Grébe de Riviere, ou le Castagneux, Buff. Ois. 8. 224. t. 20.—Jd. Pl. 
Enl. 905. 
Little Grebe, Penn. Br. Zool. 2. 501. No. 226.—Lath. Syn. 5. 289.—Le- 
win’s Br. Birds, 5. pl. 200.—Mont. Ornith. Dict. and Sup.—Bewick’s 
Br. Birds, ed. 1826. p. t. 163. 
Provinciat—Dabchick, Dobchick, Didapper, Dipper, Small Doucker, 
Loon. 
Young. 
Tuts well known little species, in many parts recognised 
by the name of Dabchick, is indigenous, and very generally 
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