Class II. EARED GREBE. 135 



Podiceps auritus. P. fusco-ni- Colymbus auritus. Lin. Syst. 2. Earep. 



gricans subtus albus, capite 223. Scopoli, No. 100. 



nigro, auribus cristato fer- Norvegis Sav-Orre, Soe-Orre. 



rugineis. LatJi. Ind. orn. Bornhtlmis Soe-Hoene. Jj- 



781. id. Syn. v. 285. /andw Flaueskitt. ^rwranic/t. 



Eared dobchick. Edw. av. q6. 136. 



Jig. 2. Br. Zool. 133. Arct. Zool. 



Le Grebe a Oreilles. Brisson ii. ^08. 



av. vd. 54. Hist, d'ois. viii. 



235. 



JL HE length of this species to the rump is one De 

 foot ; the extent twenty-two inches. The bill is 

 black, slender, and very slightly recurvatedj the 

 irides crimson; the head and neck are black; 

 the throat spotted with white ; the whole upper 

 side of a blackish brown, except the ridge of 

 the wing about the first joint, and the secondary 

 feathers, which are white; the breast, belly, 

 and inner coverts of the wings are white ; the 

 subaxillary feathers, and some on the side of 

 the rump, ferruginous ; behind the eyes, on each 

 side, is a tuft of long loose rust-colored feathers, 

 hanging backwards ; the legs are of a dusky 

 green. 



These birds inhabit the fens near Spalding, 

 where they breed. I have seen both male and 

 female, but could not observe any external dif- 

 ference. They make their nest not unlike that 



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