GREBE. 2S7 



the fame : forehead, and beneath, from chin to vent, white : 

 bread very glofly : at the throat the white paffes backwards al- 

 moft to the hind head, and the brown comes forward on each 

 fide on the middle of the neck : on the thighs a few black fpots : 

 legs flefh-colour tinged with purple. 



In fome birds the whole neck is afh-coloured j and others are 

 fpotted between the legs with black. 



This fpecies inhabits the fens of Lincoln/hire. Mr. Edwards Place. 



mentions his having had feveral out of the London markets, from 

 which place we have likewife received a fpecimen. 



Eared or Horned Dobchick, Ediu. pi. 49. g. 



Homed Grebe, Aril. Zool. N° 417. HORNED GR. 



L ™- Muf - pi. xcr. 



QIZE of a Teal: weight one pound: length one foot: Description. 



breadth fixteen inches. Bill one inch, dufky : head very full of 

 feathers, and of a gloffy deep green, nearly black : through each 

 eye a ftreak of yellow feathers, elongated into a tuft as it paffes 

 to the hind head : upper part of the neck and back dufky brown: 

 fore part of the neck and breaft dark orange red : leffer wing co- 

 verts cinereous ; the greater and quills black •, middle ones white : 

 belly gloffy white : legs cinereous blue before, pale behind. 



Inhabits Hud/en's Bay. Firft appears in May, about the frefh Place and 

 waters. Lays from two to four white eggs, in June, among the 

 aquatic plants ; faid to cover them when abroad. Retires fouth 

 in autumn •, appears then at New York, (laying till fpring, when 

 it returns to the north. For its vaft quicknefs in diving it is 

 called the Water Witch. Known atHudfons Bay by the name of 

 Seekeep. 



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