285 GREBE. 



4. La petite Grebe huppee, Brif. Orn. iii. pi. 3. fig. 2. 



* AR * "• Colymbus nigricans, Soj/. Ann. i. N° 101 ? 



Afh-coloured Loon, Raii Sjn. p. 124.? — Will. Orn. p. 340. pi. 61 ? 



Description. BODY the fize of a Lapwing : length eleven inches. Bill an 

 inch and a quarter, black : head rather full of feathers, and 

 elongated into two fhort tufts, one on each fide the hind head : 

 colour of the head, neck, and upper parts, fine brown : fides of 

 the head, and fore part of the neck, white, the laft marked with 

 chefnut fpots ; the white of the throat paffes far back below the 

 hind head on each fide, and under this the brown advances to- 

 wards the fore part : the breaft, belly, thighs, and fides, white j 

 the laft marked with chefnut and brown fpots : wing coverts 

 brown j fome of thofe next the body, and part of the fecond 

 quills, white : legs olive brown. 



This feems to partake both of the laft as well as of the follow- 

 ing fpecies ; but we hefitate not to pronounce it the former in one 

 of its progrefiive ftages towards perfection, as it varies much like 

 the crefted '/pedes at the different periods of age. 



- La petite Grebe, Brif. Om. vi. p. 56. 7. — Buf. Oif. viii. p. 232. — PL 



+■ DUSKY GR. Enl. 942. 



Black and white Dobchick, Edixi. pi. 96. fig. 1. 

 Dufky Grebe, Br. Zool. N° 225.— /iV<2. Zool. N° 420. 



Lev. Muf. 



Description. Q I Z E of a fmall Teal: length eleven inches. Bill thirteen 



lines long, colour black, with the fides red : lore and irides 



red : above, the upper parts of the head, neck, and body, are 



dufky brown : ridge of the wing white : fecondaries tipped with 



the 



