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Family PODICIPITIDiE. 



Genus PODICEPS, Latham. 



PODICEPS CRISTATUS, Linnmus. 

 (P. australis, Gould.) 

 Australian Tippet-Grebe. 

 Gould, Homdhk. Bds. Aust., Vol. ii., sp. 665, p. 511. 



This bird is found breeding during wet seasons on the back 

 waters of many of the inland rivers of New South Wales and 

 Victoria. The nest like all others of the genus is composed qf 

 sedges and other aquatic herbage, and is attached to reeds growing 

 in the water, the top of the nest being nearly level with the 

 surface. Eggs usually five in number for a sitting, in form 

 elongated ovals, slightly pointed at both ends, of a pale bluish- 

 white colour, which is usually entirely hidden with a thin coating 

 of lime, except in some places where a few deep scratches reveals 

 the true colour of the shell underneath. A set taken on the 

 Lachlan during November 1886, measures as follows : — length (A) 

 2-2 X 1-35 inches ; (B) 2-23 x 1-35 inches ; (0) 2-11 x 1-32 inches. 



Hah. Wide Bay District, Richmond and Clarence Rivers 

 Districts, New South Wales, Interior, Victoria and South 

 Australia, Tasmania. {Samsai/.) 



PODICEPS NESTOR, Gould. 

 Hoary-lieaoLecl Grebe. 

 Qould, Handhk. Bds. Aust., Vol. ii., sp. 666, p. 512. 



This bird is dispersed over the eastern and south-eastern portions 

 of the continent of Australia, and the whole of Tasmania. It 

 forms a floating nest of aquatic herbage and sedges, which is 

 attached to two or three reeds in the water, and is only a few 

 inches above the surface. Eggs five in number for a sitting are of 

 a pale bluish-white colour when freshly laid, covered with a thin 



