2 ?2 GREBE. 



Femaib. The female is faid to differ in having the head lefs tufted ; in 



other things it much refembles the male*. 

 Young Birds. The young birds differ exceedingly at different ftages of life: 



at firft they are perfectly downy, and ftriped, efpecially down the 

 neck, with black : after this, when about half grown, the ftripes 

 on the neck are lefs diftinct, being rather mottled than ftriped ; 

 and the under part, though white, is clouded with dufky f j at 

 this period a fullnefs round the head is obferved : as the bird ad- 

 vances ftill further towards perfection the brown and white ap- 

 pear clear and diftin6t, the head becomes much tufted, and the 

 horns are a little elongated. But we have great reafon to believe 

 that the bird does not obtain the, full and perfect creft till the 

 fecond year at leaft. 

 Tlace and The above are fufficiently common in fome parts of England, 



breeding in the meres of Sbropjhire and Cbejhire, and in the eaft 

 fen of Lincoln/hire, where they are called Gaunts •, in fome parts 

 known by the name of Cargoofe. The female lays four white 

 eggs the fize of thofe of a Pigeon : the neft is of a large fize, and 

 formed of bogbean, ftalks of water-lilly, pond-weed, and water- 

 violet, floating independent among the reeds and flags j the water 

 penetrates it, and the bird fits and hatches in that condition. 

 The food of the old bird is fmall fiflo, which it gets by diving, and 

 at times will eat vegetables %. It feeds the young with fmall eels ; 



# In one {hewn to us at Mr. Boa'dam's as a. female, the ruff was white, and 

 fmaller than in the male: the tufts on the top of the head we;e fhorter, and 

 white alfo, the head having no rufous tinge about it. — ~Weftfpe£l the above to 

 be a bird in incomplete plumage. 



f See Brunnicb, p. 42. N" 139. 



% Dr. Heyfiam mentions one of the Tippet Grebes being (hot near CarliJIe, 

 which hadhalf-digefted •vegetables, and a great number of feathers, in its ftornach. 



and 



Manners. 



