aSa _ GREBE. 



I do not recolleft, that, among any of the drawings (rota India 

 or China, which have come under my] infpe6tion, I have met 

 with a fingle fpecies of the Grebe genus ; yet feveral have been 

 noticed as inhabitants of the warmer as well as colder parts of 

 America, Indeed we remark a variety of our Little Grebe, or 

 what is efteemed as fuch, from the Philippine IJlands, recorded 

 by Buffon ; and I have not a doubt but future obfervers will find 

 the Continent of Afia likewife not to be deficient therein. 



It was fuppofed alfo by former authors, that the Jacana genus 

 .was confined to Brajil and its environs, hence the whole of that 

 race known were called Brajilian VTater-hens, But later obfer- 

 vations have pointed out to us no fewer than four of that genus, 

 which inhabit Jfrica and Afia. — One proof, among the many 

 others, how much we have yet to learn in Ornithology, 



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