204 PODICIPIDvE. 



where. It inhabits the northern, but not circumpolar, por- 

 tions of the Palsearctic and Nearctic Regions. 



Podiceps nigricoUis. Eaeed Grebe. 



Podiceps nigricollisj C. L. Brehm, Vog. Deutschl. 

 p. 963 (1831). 



Colymbus eornutus, Nauru, ix. p. 739. 

 Colymbas arcticus, Naum. ix. p. 755. 

 Podiceps aurituSj Macg. v. p. 270; Hewitson, p. 445; 



Gray, p. 215; Yarr. ed. 3, iii. p. 417; id. ed. 3, iii. 



p. 420; Hurting, p. 70. 

 Podiceps nigricollis, Gould, v. pi. 41; Dresser, -viii. p. 651. 

 The Eared Grebe, Yarr. ed. 1, iii. p. 313. 



NigricoUis = with a black neck ; from niger + colluin. 



An irregular visitant, generally in spring, to the southern 

 and eastern districts of England, rarely to Scotland and 

 Ireland. It inhabits the temperate and southern Palmar ctic 

 Region and Africa down to the Cape colony. 



Genus TACHYBAPTES, Rnchenbach, Syst. Av. p. ii 

 (1851). 



Tachybaptes = diving quickly ; from Taxi's + pdwrris. 



Tachybaptes fluviatUis. Little Grebe. 



Colymbus fluviatilis, Tunstall, Orn. Brit. p. 3 

 (1771). 

 Colymbus minor, Naum. ix. p. 785. 

 Sylbeocyclus europfeus, Macg. v. p. 276. 

 Podiceps minor, Hewitson, p. 446; Gray, p. 215; Yarr. 

 ed. 2, iii. p. 420; id. ed. 3, iii. p. 423; Gould, v. pi. 42; 

 Hurting, p. 70. 

 Podiceps fluviatilis, Dresser, viii. p. 659. 

 The Little Grebe or Dabchick, Yarr. ed. 1, iii. p. 316. 



Fli'Viutilis = of or belonging to a viy f>i%fiumus. 



Resident and generally distributed. It inhabits the Old 

 World. 



