GREBE. 291 



bird, but tinged with purple ; and the cheeks and fides of the 

 neck incline to rufous : in other things it refembles the abovefaid, 

 of which it appears to be a mere variety. 



Inhabits the Philippine IJlands. Place. 



Colymbus Dominkus, Lin. Sjfi. I. p. 223. 10. u. 



La Grebe de Riviere de St. Domingue, Brif. Orn. vi. p. 64, 11. pi. 5. +- VVHITE- 

 fig. z. WINGED GR. 



Le Caftagneux de St. Domingue, Buf. Oif. viij. p. 248. 

 Le Plongeon, Defer, de Surin. ii. p. 155. 

 Twopenny Chick, Hughes Barb. p. 72. 



T ES S than the little Grebe: length fcarcely eight inches. Bill DEscRi?Tiof7, 



thirteen lines, colour black : plumage of all the upper part 

 dufky: fides of the head, chin, and fore part of the neck, dufky 

 grey : breafr, belly, fides, and thighs, filvery grey, marked with 

 fmall brown fpots : quills greyifh white, more or lefs marked 

 with greyifh. brown on ihe outer webs and tips : legs brown. 



Inhabits the ifiand of St. Domingo. I received one of thefe Place. 



from Jamaica, of an uniform dufky lead-colour, except the mid- 

 dle of the belly, which had a large patch of white : the quills 

 were as in the above-defcribed : this moft likely differs merely in 

 fex. We have likewife feen a third, which had the belly wholly 

 brown, but differed from the firft-defcribed in no other particu- 

 lar : this came from Cayenne, where it is known by the name of 

 Soccove. It is called at Jamaica, as well as in Barbadoes, the Two- 

 penny Chick. It is likewife an inhabitant of Surinam, where Mr. 

 Fermin * mentions another to exift, fmaller than this, wholly co- 



* Hift. de Surin. ii. p. 155. 



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