GREBE. 23 f 



more efpecially in the legs : in the Grebes they are not webbed ; 

 the Guillemots, though web-footed, have only three toes, all 

 placed forwards ; and the Divers have three toes before and one 

 behind *. 



Colymbus criftatus, Lin. Syjl. i. p. 222.7. — Faun. Suec.N 151. — Scop. 1. 



Ann. i. N° 99— Brun. itf.—Mulkr, N° tf.—Frifcb. tab. 183. -l-CRESTED GR. 



La Grebe huppee, Brif. Orn. vi. p. 38. z. pi. 4. — Buf. Oif. viii. p. 233. — 



PI. Enl. 944. 

 La Grebe cornue, Brif. Orn. vi. p. 45. 4. pi. 5. fig. 1. — Buf. Oif. viii. 



p. 233. pi. 19. — PL Enl. 400. 

 Colymbus major criftatus & cornutus, Raii Syn. p. 124. A. 2. 

 Greater crefted and horned Ducker, Will. Orn. p. 340. § 4. 5. pi. 61.— « 



Plott. Hi/i. Staff, p. 229. pi. 22. — Alb in, i. pi. 81. ii. pi. 75. 

 Great crefted Grebe, Br. Zool. N° 223. — Artt. Zool p. 498. A. 

 Br. Muf. Lev. Muf. 



CIZE of a Duck : length twenty-three inches : breadth twenty- Description. 



three and a half. Bill two inches and a half long, of a reddifh 

 flefh-colour ; tip brown : lore and irides crimfon : head greatly 

 enlarged with feathers, fo as to make it appear unnatural ; thefe 

 feathers are much elongated on each fide of the hind head, ap- 

 pearing like ears, and from thence rounded like a ruff to the 

 under jaw; the colour black, except the middle of the lad, which 

 is bright ferruginous : the hind part of the neck, upper parts of 

 the body, and wings, are brown : fides of the head, round the 

 eyes, and under parts, from chin to vent, filvery white : in 

 many birds a mixture of pale ferruginous acrofs the breaft : on 

 the wings an oblique white bar : the inner ridge of the wing is 

 alfo v/hite : legs dufky. 



* See Brif. Orn, vol. vi. p. 33. 70. 104. — Gen. of Birds, p. 46. 51. 



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