Class II. RED NECKED GREBE. 139 



Podiceps rubricoilis. P. sub- Colymbus rubrlcoUis. Gm. 6. Red 



cristatus fuscus, gula genis Lin. 592. subcristatus. id. ^ecke . 



regioneque aurium cineras- 5Q0. 



centibus, coUo subtus pec- Le Grebe a joues grises, ou le 



toreque ferrugineo-rubris, soagris. Hisi. d'ois. viii. 2il. 



abdomine remigibusque se- PI. Enl. Q31. 



cundariis albis. Lath. Ind. Colymbus Parotis. Mus.Qarl- 



orn. 783.. id. Syn. v. 288. son. Tab. ix. , ,,f j ^.iui.\.. 



id. Sup. I. 260. t. 118. Arct. Zool. ii. 2O9. 



[DR. Latham in the first supplement to his *S^- 

 nopsis, informs us, that four of these very rare 

 birds were taken or killed on the southern coasts 

 of the kingdom, in the year 1786. As his de- 

 scription is more minute than that given by Mr. 

 Pennant in the Arctic Zoology, the editor takes 

 the liberty of borrowing it : '^'^ ^'^''' ^^l^^^^^^^ 

 •-'•■**- Length eighteen inches;' bilV nearly two - 



inches long ; sides of the base of both mandibles Descrip- 

 for three quarters of an inch, of a fine orange 

 yellow, the rest black; lore brown or black- 

 ish; irides fine orange red; the crown and sides 

 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; 

 six of the middle secondaries white, a little mot- 

 tled with dusky at the tips; the two or three 

 next outward ones more or less white near the 

 tips and inner webs ; the chin, sides under the 



TION. 



