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PODICEPS CEISTATUS. 



(GREAT CRESTED GREBE.) 



Colymbus, Briss. Orn. vi. p. 34, pi. iii. fig. 1 (1760). 



Colymbus cristatus, Briss. torn. cit. p. 38, pi. iv. (1760). 



Colymbus cristatus, Linn. Syst. Nat. i. p. 222 (1766). 



Colymbus urinator, Linn. torn. cit. p. 223 (1766). 



Le Grebe cornu, Buff. Hist. Nat. Ois. viii. p. 235, pi. xix. (1781). 



Podiceps cristatus (L.), Lath. Ind. Orn. ii. p. 780 (1790). 



Colymbus cornutus, Pall. Zoogr. Rosso-As. ii. p. 353 (1811, nee Gmel.). 



Lophaithyia, Kaup (Podiceps cristatus, Lath.), Natiirl. Syst. p. 72 (1829). 



Podiceps mitratus, C. L. Brehm, Vog. Deutschl. p. 953 (1831). 



Podiceps patagiatus, C. L. Brehm, torn. cit. p. 954 (1831). 



Podiceps australis, Gould, Proc. Zool. Soc. 1844, p. 135. 



Podiceps hectori (var.), Buller, Essay on N.-Z. Orn. p. 19 (1865). 



Podiceps widhalmi, Goebel, J. fiir Orn. 1870, p. 312. 



"■Podiceps rostratus, Yarr." (ubil), Mansel-Pleydell, Orn. & Conch. Dorset, p. 47 (1874). 



GrSbe huppe, French ; Svasso maggiore, Italian ; Blongium prim, Maltese ; gehaubter Steiss- 

 fuss, grosser Lappentaucher, German; de Fuut, Dutch; Toppet-Silkeand, Toppet-Lappe- 

 dykker, Danish ; Toplom, Norwegian ; Hvidstrupig Bopping, Skagg-Bopping, Swedish ; 

 Silkkikuikka, Finnish ; Cagara khokhlataia, Russian. 



Figurce notabiles. 



Edwards, Gleanings, pi. 360. fig. 2; D'Aubenton, PL Enl. 400, 941, 944; Werner, Atlas, 

 Pinnatipedes, pi. 5; Kjserb. Orn. Dan. taf. 39, Suppl. taf. 19; Frisch, Vog. Deutschl. 

 taf. 183; Fritsch, Vog. Eur. taf. 61. figs. 11, 14; Naumann, Vog. Deutschl. taf. 242; 

 Sundevall, Svensk. Fogl. pi. 54. figs. 1, 2 ; Gould, B. of Eur. pi. 388 ; id. B. of G. Brit, 

 v. pi. 38; id. B. of Austr. vii. pi. 80; Schlegel, Vog. Nederl. pi. 270; Audub. B. of Am. 

 pi. 479. 



Ad. pileo et crista occipitali bipartite nigris vix viridi nitentibus, gula, genis et stria superciliari albis : capitis 

 lateribus inferioribus et jugulo rufis, collari postico nigricanti marginato : collo postico cinereo-nigro : 

 corpore supra nigricante, plumis cinereo-fusco marginatis : remigibus secundariis et margine anteriore 

 alarum albis, remigibus reliquis cinereo-fuscis : collo antico et corpore subtus argenteo-albis, hypochon- 

 driis cervino- vel rufescenti-fuscis : rostro fusco, ad basin flavido : iride coccinea : pedibus extus viridi- 

 fuscis, intus flavo-viridibus. 



Juv. pileo, collo postico et corpore supra fuscis, dorsi plumis pallidiore marginatis : capitis lateribus albis, 

 rufescente fusco striatis : gula, gutture et corpore subtus albis. 



