HORNED AND PIED-BILL GREBE. 497 



XLV. GREBE. Gen. Birds, LXXVIIL 



Eared or horned Dobchick, Ednv. 49. — Latham, iii. ^,^_ HeaMBU, 



GR. with the head very full of feathers, and of a mallard green 

 color : from each eye iffues a long tuft of yellowifli orange- 

 colored feathers, almoft meeting at the hind part of the head ; be- 

 neath them is a large ruff of black feathers : fore part of the neck 

 and breaft of an orange red •, the hind part and back duflcy : coverts 

 of the wings cinereous : primaries and tertials black : fecondarie* 

 white : belly glofly and filvery : legs of a bluifh afh-color before ; 

 flelh-colored behind. Of the Size of a Teal. Not the male of 

 my Eared Dobchick, as Mr. Edwards fuppofes * ; there being in 

 that fpecies no external difference of fexes, as I have had frequent 

 opportunities of obfervlng. 



Inhabits Hudfon's Bay : appears there in the frefh waters in June : Plach- 



lays its eggs among the aquatic plants. Retires towards the fouth in 

 autumn : is called by the natives, Sekeep. It appears in New Tork in 

 that feafon, and continues there till fpring, when it returns to the 

 north. For its vaft quicknefs in diving is called, in New Tork, the 

 Water Witch. 



Colymbus podiceps, i;«. 5)y?. 223,— i«/^«»?, iii. 418. Pieo-bill. 



Pied-bill Dobchick, Catejby, i. 91. — Lev. Mu«. — Bl. Mus. 



/^R. with a ftrong arched bill, not unlike that of the common 

 poultry ; of an olive-color, croffed through the middle of both 

 mandibles with a black bar : noftrils very wide: chin and throat of 

 a glofly black, bounded with white : upper part of the neck and back 

 duflcy: cheeks and under part of the neck pale brown : breaft filvery, 

 mottled with alh-color: belly filvery : wings brown: ends of the 



• See tal. 96. Zdiu. and my account of that fpecies, Br, Zeal. ii. N° 224. 



3 S fecondaries 



