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DUSKY GREBE. 



Class Hi 



of the Crested grebe, and lay four or five small 

 white eggs. 



3. Dusky. 



Descrip- 

 tion. 



Podiceps obscurus. P. fusco- 

 nigricans, subtus albus, ma- 

 cula utrinque inter rostrum 

 et oculum, marginibus ala- 

 rum remigibusque interme- 

 diis candidis. Lath. Ind. orn. 

 782. id. Syn. v. 286. 



Colymbus obscurus. Gvi. Lin. 

 592. 



The black and white Dob- 



chick. Edw. av. 96- Jig- 1. 

 Colymbus minor, le petit 



Grebe. Brisson av. vi. 56. 



Hist. dots. viii. 232. PL 



Enl. 942. 

 Colymbus nigricans ? Scopoli, 



No. 101. 

 Br.Zool. 133. K.l.Arct.Zool. 



ii. 207. 



JL HE length from the bill to the rump is eleven 

 inches; the extent of wings twenty. The bill 

 is little more than an inch long; the crown of 

 the head, and whole upper side of the body 

 are dusky ; the inner coverts, the ridge of the 

 wing, and the middle quil feathers white ; the rest 

 of the wing dusky; a bare skin of a fine red 

 color joins the bill to the eye ; the whole under- 

 side from the breast to the rump is a silvery 

 white ; on the thighs are a few black spots. In 

 some the whole neck is ash-colored ; probably 

 they might have been young birds, or different 

 in sex. Inhabits the fens of Lincolnshire. 



