140 RED NECKED GREBE. Class IL 



eyes, and fore part of the neck for above half 

 an inch, pale ash-color; the rest of the neck 

 ferruginous chesnut, mottled with dusky; from 

 thence to the vent white, like satin, mottled on 

 the sides with dusky irregular spots ; legs black." 

 In one of the specimens shot near Teign- 

 mouth, " the colors of the head and neck were 

 much blended, and the ferruginous of the neck 

 only just breaking forth." The weight of another 

 was " nineteen ounces and a half; length twen- 

 ty-one inches and a half ; the bill yellow at the 

 base, dusky olive towards the tip; lore dusky; 

 irides pale brown ; head quite smooth ; the ferru- 

 ginous color of the neck much blended with 

 dusky; the white on the under parts, greatly 

 mottled with the same; legs without, duskyj^ 

 within, greenish yellow. Another variety had 

 ^,^. a band of white across the lower part of the 

 neck." Ep. -i V ^ 





