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Genus LXXIX. GREBE. 



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l. 



Crefted Gr. 



N°7. 



Red-necked Gr. 



2. 



Tippet Gr. 



8. 



Black-breafted Gr. 



3- 



Cayenne Gc 



9- 



Louifiane Gr. 



•4- 



Eared Gr. 



10. 



Little Gr. 





Var. A. 





Var. A. 



S- 



Dufky Gr. 



ii. 



White-winged Gr. 



6. 



Horned Gr. 



12. 



Black-chin Gr. 





Var. A. 



13- 



Pied-bill Gr. 



TH E bill in this genus is ftrong, flender, and fharp- 

 pointed. 



Noftrils linear. 



Space between the bill and eye [or hre\ bare of feathers. 



Tongue (lightly cloven at the end. 



Body deprefled : feathers thick fet, compact, and very fmooth 

 and glofTy. 



"Wings fhort. No tail. 



Legs placed far behind *, much compreffed, and doubly at the 

 back part. 



Toes furnilhed on each fide with a broad plain membrane. 



This genus is placed by Linnaus, with the Guillemot and Di- 

 ver, under the general name of Colymbus, without even a divifion ; 

 but they differ materially from one another in many particulars, 



* From the legs being as it were placed in the vent, fome of the genus have 

 been called, .by the lower clafs, by the very vulgar name of Ar/e-foot. 



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