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EARED GREBE. 



PODICEPS AURITUS, Lath. 



PLATE CCCCLXXXII.— Adult and Young. 



The specimens from which my figures of this species of Grebe have been 

 taken, were lent me by my noble and kind friend the Right Honourable the 

 Earl of Derby, who received them from North America, where, as I am 

 assured, it is not uncommon, although it has not been my good fortune to 

 meet with it. 



Eared Dobchick or Greee, Pocliceps auritus, Nutt. Man., vol. ii. p. 256. 

 Eared Grebe, Pocliceps auritus, Aud. Orn. Biog., vol. v. p. 108. 



Adult 13, wing 5 T \. 



Very rare, and not found by me in America. 



Adult Male. 



Bill shorter than the head, as broad as high at the base, compressed and 

 slightly recurved toward the end; upper mandible with the dorsal line 

 straight and slightly declinate to beyond the nostrils, then direct, but slightly 

 descending toward the tip, the ridge convex, the edge incurved, the tip 

 acute; lower mandible with the angle long and extremely narrow, the dorsal 

 line beyond it ascending and slightly convex, the sides sloping outwards and 

 a little convex, the edges direct,, the tip acute. Nostrils linear, basal, rather 

 small, pervious. Gap-line almost straight, being a little recurvate. 



Head of moderate size, oblong, compressed; neck long, slender; body 

 depressed. Feet short, large, placed close to the extremity of the body; 

 tibia feathered to within two-twelfths of an inch of the joint; tarsus 

 extremely compressed, its anterior edge with a row of small scutella, the 

 sides with broad scutella, beyond which are some irregular scales, the 

 posterior edge with a double line of small prominent scales; first toe very 

 small, with an inferior membrane, fourth longest; anterior toes scutellate, 

 connected at the base by a membrane, and having on both sides an expanded 

 web-like margin, marked with oblique lines, and having a crenulate edge; 

 claws flat, that of the third toe very broad, obliquely obovate, abrupt. 



Plumage very soft, blended, on the lower parts silky, on the back glossy 



