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Genus LXXIX.. GREBE. ■ ._ ,, 



7. Red-necked Grebe, Gen. Syu. v. p. 288. N» 7. 



"^^EDGR^^' Colymbus fubcriftatus, Jacg. Fog. p. 37. pi. 18. 



. ' Colymbus parotis, Sfarrm, Muf. Carlf. pi. 9. 



Descrip-tion. f ENGTH eighteen inches j to the end of the toes twenty- 

 four; weight feventeen ounces. Bill nearly two inches long; 

 fides of the bafe of both mandibles, for three quarters of an inch, 

 of a fine orange yellow; the reft black : lore brown or blackifli : 

 irides fine orange red : the crown, and fides of the head above the 

 eyes, nearly black, and the feathers a little elongated : the hind 

 part of the neck, the back, and wings, dark brown ; fix of the 

 middle fecondaries white, a little mottled with dufky at the tips; 

 the two or three next outward ones more or lefs white near the 

 tips and inner webs : the chin, fides under the eyes, and fore part 

 of the neck, for above an inch, pale afii-colour j the reft of the 

 neck ferruginous chefnut, mottled on the breaft with dulky : from 

 thence, to the vent, white, like fattin, mottled on the fides with 

 dufky irregular fpots : legs black* 



I received a perfeft fpecimen.of the male of this bird from Ma- 

 jor Hammond, who informed me, that the end of April, the year 

 1786, two of them alighted in a farm-yard, near his houfein Eafi 

 Kent, and were taken alive. 



I have alfo met with two other fpecimens ; tiie firft fent to me, 

 January 28, 1786, by Mr. Martin, oi'Teingmouth, a gentleman to 

 ■whom I owe many other obligations : his fpecimen had net come 

 £0 perfedion, as the colours of the head and neck were much 



blendedj, 



