496 TIPPET GREBE. Class II. 



XXXVIII. BILL ftrong, ftrait, friarp pointed, 

 GREBE*. _ ATT ° rr 



TAIL, none. 



LEGS flat, thin, and ferrated behind with a 



double row of notches. 



:22. Tippet. Colymbus major. Gefner a-j r Rail fyn. av. 125. 



138. Colymbus, la Grebe. Brijfon 



Jldr. av. III. 104. 0-0. VI. 34. tab. 3. fig. \, 



Greater Loon, or Arsfoot. Colymbus urinator Lin.fyfi, 



Wil. orn. 339. 223 Scopoli, No. ic-2. 



Greater Dobchick. Ediv.av. Br. Zool. 133, 



360. fig. 2. 



THIS differs from the great crefted Grebe ia 

 being rather lefs,-- and wanting the crefi: and 

 ruff. The fides of the neck are ftriped downwards 

 from the head with narrow lines of black and 

 white : in other refpects the colors and marks agree 

 with that bird. 



This fpecies has been mot on Reft erne- Mere in 

 Cbejhires is rather fcarce in England^ but is com- 

 mon in the winter time on the lake of Geneva. 

 They appear there in flocks of tQn or twelve : and 

 are killed for the fake of their beautiful fkins. 



* The Grebes and Divers zre. placed in the fame genus, 

 z. e. of Cclymbi, by Mr. Ray and Linncsus ; but the difference 

 of the feet, forbade our judicious friend, M. Brijfon, from 

 continuing them together ; whole example we have followed. 



The 



