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and will carry them, when tired, on its back : is feldom or never 

 feen on land : is a quick diver, and difficult to be fhot, as it 

 darts down on the leafi: appearance of danger ; and feldom flies 

 farther than the end of the lake it frequents *. 



Colymbus urinator, Lin. Syjl. i. p. 223. 9. — Scop. Ann. i. N° 102 f. 2. 



La Grebe, Brif. Orn. vi. p. 34. 1. pi. 3. fig. i.—Buf. Oif. viii. p. 227.— TIPPET GR. 



PI. Enl. 941. 

 Colymbus major, Raii Syn. p. 125. 6. 

 Greater Loon, or Arfe-foot, Will. Orn. p. 339. 



Dobchick, Edvu. pi. 360. fig. 2. 



Tippet Grebe 1 , Br. Zool. N° 222. pi. 78. 



Lev. Muf. 



AUTHORS inform us that this is fomewhat lefs than the Description. 



great crefted Grebe ; and that it wants both the crefl: and rufF, 

 fo confpicuous in that bird. The fides of the neck are ftriped 

 downwards from the head with narrow lines of black and white: 

 in other refpefts the colours and marks agree. 



It is faid to be rather fcarce in England, but has been fhot on Place anu 

 Rofierne-mere in Chejhire. Are common in the winter time on the Manners. 



lake of Geneva, appearing in flocks of ten or twelve, and are 

 killed for the fake of their beautiful fkins; the under fides of them, 

 being drefied with the feathers on, are made into muffs and tippets : 



* Br. Zool. 



■f Scopoli defcribes two birds : in one the upper parts are brown : belly and 

 under fide of the wings white. The other (fuppofed to be of a different fex) 

 larger ; but differs in having a white throat, a rufous neck, and two black 

 fireaks produced downwards from each eye. 



O o 2 each 



