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PHILIPPINE GREBE. 



(Podiceps Philippensis.) 



Po. supra purpureo-fuscus, subtus albo-argenteus, genis lateri- 



busque colli riifcscentibus . 

 Grebe above of a purple-brown, beneath silvery white, with the 



cheeks and sides of the neck reddish. 

 Podiceps minor /3. Lath. Ind. Orn. 2. 784. 

 Le Castagneux des Philippines. Buff. Hist. Nat. Ois. 8. 24G. 



Buff. PL Enl. 945. 

 Little Grebe, var. A. Lath. Gen. Si/n. 5. 290. 



This appears to be distinct from the preceding : 

 it is rather larger, and has the upper parts of the 

 plumage brown tinged with purple ; and the cheeks 

 and side of the neck incline to rufous : in other re- 

 spects it resembles that bird. 



It inhabits the Philippine Islands, and also Southern 

 Africa. 



PIED-BILL GREBE. 



(Podiceps Carolinensis.) 



Po. corporefusco, rostro fascia sesquialterd, guld nigra. 



Grebe with the body brown, the beak with a fascia and the throat 



black. 

 Podiceps Carolinensis. Lath. hid. Orn. 2. 785. Sabine, Frank. 



Voy. App. 692. 

 Colymbus Podiceps. Linn. Syst. Nat. 1. 223. Gmel. Si/st. Nat. 



1.594. 



