TIPPET GREBE. 



Class II. 



A. Tippet. Podiceps cristatus. P. fuscus 

 subtus albus capite Isevi ma- 

 cula alarum alba. (Pullus 

 annuus.) Lath. Jnd. orn. 

 781. id. Syn. v. 283. 



Colymbus major. Gesner av. 

 138. 



Aldr. av. iii. 104. 



Greater Loon, or Arsfoot. 

 TVil. orn. SSQ. 



Greater Dobchick. Edjv. av, 



360. fg. 2. 

 Raii Syn. av. 125. 

 Colymbus, le Grebe. Brisson 



av. vi. 34. iah. 3. j%. 1. 



Hist, d'ois. A'iii. 227- PL 



E7il. 941. 

 Colymbus urinator. Gm. Lin. 



223. Scopoli, No. 102. 

 Br. Zool. 133, 



Descrip- 

 tion. 



^ HIS differs from the great crested grebe in 

 being rather less, and wanting the crest and 

 ruff. The sides of the neck are striped down- 

 wards from the head with narrow lines of black 

 and white ; in other respects the colors and marks 

 agree with that bird. 



This species* has been shot on Kostcrnc Mere 

 in Cheshire; is rather scarce in England^ but 

 is common in the winter time on the lake of 

 Genet^a, where they appear in flocks of ten or 

 twelve ; and are killed for the sake of their beau- 

 tiful skins. The under side of them being drest 

 with the feathers on, are made into muffs and 

 tippets ; each bird sells for about fourteen shil- 

 lings. 



* Though considered in the preceding edition as a distinct 

 species, it seems evidently the great crested grebe, in an imrpa- 

 ture state of plumage. Ed. 



