Crass II. EARED GREBE. 
Podiceps auritus. P. fusco-ni- Colymbus auritus. Lin. Syst. 
gricans subtus albus, capite 223. Scopoli, No. 100. 
nigro, auribus cristato fer- Norvegis Sav-Orre, Soe-Orre. 
rugineis. Lath. Ind. orn. Bornhelmis Soe-Hoene. Is- 
781. id. Syn. v. 285. landis Flaueskitt. Brunnich, 
_Eared dobchick. Edw. av. 96. 136. 
Jig. 2. Br. Zool. 133. <Arct. Zool. 
Le Grebe a Oreilles. Bhiiiton ii. 208. 
av. vi. 54. Hist. dois: viii. 
235. 
THE length of this species to the rump Is one 
foot ; the extent twenty-two inches. The bill is 
black, slender, and very slightly recurvated; the 
irides crimson; the head and neck are black; 
the throat spotted with white; the whole upper 
side of a blackish brown, except the ridge of 
the wing about the first joint, and the secondary 
feathers, which are white; the breast, belly, 
and inner-coverts of the wings are white; the 
subaxillary feathers, and some on the side of 
the rump, ferruginous ; behind the eyes, on each 
side, is a tuft of long loose rust-colored feathers, 
hanging backwards; the legs are of a dusky 
green. 
"These birds inhabit the fens near Spalding, 
where they breed. I have seen both male and 
female, but could not observe any external dif- 
ference. They make their nest not unlike that 
2. EARED. 
DeEscrip- 
TION. 
