■r- 



GREBE. 



vered with cottony white feathers ; the bill yellow, and the legs 

 fhort. He tells us that it is only feen in the fav annas, near fmall 

 ponds, and feeds on the lefler fifh. It is moft likely that the 

 laft is the young of the others, and not a diftincl fpecies. 



12. Elack-chin Grebe, Br. Zool. N° 227. pi. 79. 



BLACK CHIN 

 (^ R 



^ T? AT HER larger than the little Grebe. Chin black : fore part 



DESCRIPTION. J\_ ° _ r 



of the neck ferruginous ; hind part mixed with dufky : belly 

 cinereous and filver intermixed. 



Place. 



»3- 

 PIED-BILL 



GR. 



Description. 



Female. 

 Place. 



Inhabits Tiree, one of the Hebrides. 



Colymbus podiceps, Lin. Syjt. i. p. 223. 11. 

 La Grebe de Riviere de la Caroline, Brif. Orn. vi. p. 65. 10. 

 Le Caftagneux a bee cercle, Buf. Oif. viii. p. 247. 

 Pied-bill Dobchick, Catejb. Car. i. pi. gi.—ArS. Zool. N° 418. pi. 22. 



Lev- Mu/. 



T EN G TH fourteen inches. Bill ftrong, a little bent, not 

 unlike that of the common Poultry ; colour olive, with a 

 dufky bafe, and croffed through the middle of both mandibles 

 with a bar of black : noftrils very wide : irides white : chin and 

 throat of a gloffy black, bounded with white : upper part of the 

 neck and back dufky: cheeks and under parts of the neck pale 

 brown : breaft and belly filvery, the firft mottled with afh-colour: 

 wings brown ; ends of the fecondaries white : toes furnifhed with 

 a broad membrane. 



The female wants the black bar on the bill, and has the chin 

 and throat of the fame colour with the reft of the neck. 



Inhabits from New York to South Carolina ; is called in the 

 firft the Hen-beaked JVigeon, or Water Witch. Arrives there late 

 in the autumn, and goes away in April. 



Order 



