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The eggs of the White-winged, or Least, Grebe measure from 1-2 

 to 1-4 in length, and from -87 to -95 in breadth. 



The specimens from Antioquia are much smaller than those from 

 Jamaica. 



2. Jamaica (A. Newton). Salvin-Qodman Coll. 



1. Jamaica, 13th Dec. {W. Oaburn). Salvin-Godman Coll. 



% Antioquia, U.S. Colombia (7". K. Salvin-Godman Coll. 

 Salmon). 



Podicipes americanus, Gamot. 

 (Plate XI. fig. 8.) 



Podiceps roUandi, Scl. Sf Huds. Argent. Orn. ii. p. 204 (1889) ; Holland, 



/&■«, 1892, p. 214. 

 Podicipes americanus, Grant, Cat. Birds B. M. xxvi. p. 524 (1898) : 



Sharpe, Hand-l. i. p. 114 (1899). 



The eggs of EoUand's Grebe measure from 1-55 to 1-85 in length, 

 and from 1-05 to 1-23 in breadth. 



1. Valparaiso, 9th December. G. Napier, Esq. [P.]. 



5. Argentine Republic. A. H. Holland, Esq. [C.]. 



Genus BYTES, Kaup. 

 Dytes auritus (^Linn.). 



Podiceps auritus, Thien. Fortpflam. ges. Vog. tab. Ixxiv. fig-. 7, a-c 



(1845-54); Baedeker, Eier Eur. Vog. tab. 16. fig. 3 (1855-68); 



Dresser, Birds Eur. viii. p. 645 (1879). 

 Podiceps cornutus, Thien. torn. cit. tab. Ixxiv. fig. &,a,b; Baedeker, torn. 



cit. tab. 16. flg. 4 ; Hewitson, Eggs of Brit. Birds, ii. p. 445, pi. cxxi. 



fig. iii (1856) ; Seebohm, Brit. Birds, iii. p. 462, pi. 39 (1885). 

 Podiceps arcticus, Baedeker, torn. cit. tab. 16. fig. 5. 

 Podicipes cornutus, Seebohm, Eggs of Brit. Birds, p. 81, pi. 22. fig. 8 



(1896). 

 Podicipes auritus. Grant, Cat. Birds B. M. xxvi. p. 527 (1898). 

 Dytes auritus, Sharpe, Hand-l. i. p. 114 (1899). 



The eggs of the Sclavonian Grebe vary from 1"56 to 1"86 in 

 length, and from 1"14 to 1'31 in breadth. 



2. Fort Yukon, Alaska (iJ. Kennicott : Salvin-Godman Coll. 



Senshaw Coll.). 



3. Fort Yukon (22. K. : Henshaw Salvin-Godman Coll. 



Coll.). 



6. Husevig, Iceland (Benzon). Salvin-Godman Coll. 



1. Iceland, 13th June. Salvin-Godman Coll. 



2. Iceland ( W. Proctor). Salvin-Godman Coll. 



4. Myvalin, Iceland, 11th July. Seebohm Coll. 

 2. Iceland. Seebohm Coll. 



5. Iceland. Seebohm CoU. 

 2. Iceland, 1st April. Seebohm Coll. 

 5. Rago Island, Gulf of Finland, Seebohm ColL 



12th June. 

 5 . Central Pomerania, 4th June. Seebohm Coll. 



