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fecondaries white : toes furniflied with broad membranes. The 

 female wants the black bar on the bilL Length fourteen inches. 

 PtACEr. Inhabits from Netv Tork to South Carolina : is called in the firft, the 



Hen-heaked Wigeon, or Water Witch. Arrives there late in the autumnj 

 and goes away in April, 



419. LouisiAKE, Le Grebe de la Loulfianej De Bufon,vm. 240. — PI, Eal, N" 943. — Latham, iii.- 



/~1R. The end of the bill (lightly bent : middle of the breaft white, 

 tinged with dufky : fides of the neck and body, quite to the rump, 

 ruft-colored : from the bafe of the neck to the thighs marked with 

 large tranfverfe black fpots : upper part of the body and wings deep 

 brown : legs dufl^y. In Size rather lefa than the common Grebe. 

 Place. Inhabits Louijiana.. 



420. DusKT. Br, Z'ool. ii. N" 225. — EJ'w. 96. fig. i. — ^Le petit Grebe, De Buffon, vili. 232. — 



Fl, Enl, 942. — Lathanti iii. —Lev. Mus. — Bl. Mus. 



' Cti'^' ^'^^ ^^ crown,, neck,, back, and primaries, dufky : ridge of 

 the wings and fecondapies white :: reft of the wings dufky : breaft 

 and belly filvery, but clouded. Size of a Teal. 

 Pi-ACE. Sent from New Tork with the Horned Grel^ey as its fsmalej but is 



certainly a diftinft fpecies. 



A. Great Crested Grebe, Br, Z»o/. ii. N"" 223.— Le Grebe cornu, De Buffon, •<i\\i, 

 235. — Eaun, Suec, N" 151. — Latiam/nu —Lev. Mus. — Bi. Mus. 



r^R. With the cheeks and throat furrounded with a long pendent rufF, 



of a bright tawny color : on the head a great dufky creft : hind 



part of the neck and back duflcy : primaries of the fame color : fecon- 



7 ^daries 



