Order PYGOPODES. 



Bill straight and pointed. Wings short. Tail wanting or rudimentary. Tarsus highly 

 compressed ; feet lobed ; hind toe elevated. 



Plumage silky. Tibia enclosed within the integuments. Young following the parent when 

 hatched. 



Genus PODICEPS. 



Bill straight, high at the base, pointed, the commissure nearly straight from the gape, which 

 is angulated ; gonys short and ascending ; nostrils oval, advanced, placed in a lengthened 

 membrane. Wings short, concave, pointed ; the 1st and 2nd quills the longest ; the inner webs 

 notched. Tail wanting. Tibia feathered nearly to the knee. Tarsus highly compressed, serrated 

 posteriorly, scutellate anteriorly. Feet very large, webbed at the base, the terminal portion of 

 the toes lobed ; nails broad and flattened ; hind toe lobed. 



Neck slender. Under plumage silky. Sternum very short, broad, expanding at the posteiior 

 edge, with one rounded notch. 



PODICEPS FLUVIATILIS. 



(THE LITTLE GREBE.) 



Colymbus fluviatilis, Tunstall, Orn. Brit. p. 3 (1771, ex Briss.). 



Colymbus minor, Gm. ed. Syst. Nat. i. p. 591 (1788). 



Colymbus philippensis, Bonnat. Encyl. Meth. i. p. 58, pi. 46. fig. 3 (1823). 



Podiceps gularis, Gould, P. Z. S. 1836, p. 145. 



Podiceps philippensis (Gm.), Blyth, Cat. B. Mus. A. S. B. p. 311 (1849); Layard, Ann. & 



Mag. Nat. Hist. 1854, xiv. p. 270 ; Jerdon, B. of Ind. iii. p. 822 (1864) ; Holdsw. 



P. Z. S. 1872, p. 480; Legge, Ibis, 1875, p. 407 ; David & Oustalet, Ois. de la Chine, 



p. 512 (1877). 

 Podiceps minor, Hume, Nests and Eggs, iii. p. 646 (1875); id. Str. Feath. 1879 (List B. of 



Ind.), p. 115. 

 Podiceps fluviatilis (Tunst.), Dresser, B. of Eur. pt. 77-79 (1880). 

 Le Castagneux ; Le Castagneux des Philippines, Buff. ; Little Grebe, Lath. ; Dabchick, 



popularly. Churaka, Pandub, Pan tirri, Hind. ; Dubari, Bengal. ; Chumighak, lit. 



" Diver," Turki (Scully) ; Mukelepan, lit. " Diver," Ceylonese Tamils. 

 Diya-Saaru, Sinhalese. 



Adult female (Ceylon). Length 9-2 inches; wing 3-9 to 4-0; tarsus 1-1 ; middle toe 1-8; hind toe 0-4; bill to gape 

 1-0, at front 075. — Male (Furreedpore). Length 8-1 to 9-0 inches; wing 3"75 to 4-0; tarsus 1-25; bill 

 from gape 1-16 to 1-18, at front 08 to 0-83 : weight 5-5 oz. — Female. Length 8-2 inches ; wing 3-83 ; tarsus 

 1-25 ; bill from gape 1-12, at front 0-77 : weight 5-87 oz. (Crijaps). — Adult. (India, Brit. Mus.) Wing 3-7 ; tarsus 

 1-18 : bill at front 0-73. (England) "Wing 3-85 ; tarsus 1-18 ; bill at front 0-67.— Male. (Egypt, Mus. Dresser) 



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