PIED-BILL GREBE. 17 



Colymbus fluviatilis Carolinensis. Briss. Orn. 6. 63. 



Le Castagneux a. bee cercle. Buff. Hist. Nat. Ois. 8. 247. 



Pied-bill Grebe. Perm. Arct. Zool. 2. 418. pi. 22. Catesby, 



Carol. I. pi. 91. Lath. Gen. Syn. 5. 292. Lath. Gen. Hist. 



x. 35. 



The Pied-bill Grebe is thus described by Latham 

 from a specimen in his own collection : " Length 

 fourteen inches : beak strong, a little bent, not unlike 

 that of the common poultry ; colour olive, with a 

 dusky base, and crossed through the middle of both 

 mandibles with a bar of black : nostrils very wide : 

 irides white : chin and throat of a glossy black, bounded 

 with white : upper part of the neck and back dusky : 

 cheeks and under parts of the neck pale brown : breast 

 and belly silvery, the first mottled with ash-colour : 

 wings brown ; end of the secondaries white : toes 

 furnished with a broad membrane. The female wants 

 the black bar on the beak, and has the chin and throat 

 of the same colour with the rest of the neck. Inhabits 

 New York to South Carolina." Also found by Cap- 

 tain Franklin in the Expedition to the northern 

 regions of America. 



v. XIII. p. I. 



