5oo EARED GREBE. Class II. 



224. Eared. Eared dobchick. Edw. a>v. Norvegis Sav-Orre, Soe-Orre. 



96. fig. 2. Bornholmis Soe-Hoene. If- 



La Grebe a Oreilles. BriJJbn landis Flauefkitt. Brunnicb, 



a--v. VI, 54. 136. 



Colymbus auritus. Lin. fyfi. Br. Zool, 133. 



223. Scopoliy No. 100. 



Descrip. /Tp^HE length of this fpecies to the rump is one 

 ■*■ foot ; the extent twenty-two inches : the bill 

 black, flender and very (lightly recurvated : the i- 

 rides crimfon : the head and neck are black ; the 

 throat fpotted with white : the whole upper fide 

 of a blackifli brown, except the ridge of the wing 

 about the farffc joint, and the fecondary feathers, 

 which are white: the breaft, belly, and inner 

 coverts of the v/ings are white : the fubaxillary fea- 

 thers, and fome on the fide of the rump, furrugi- 

 nous : behind the eyes, on each fide, is a tuft of 

 long loofe ruft colored feathers, hanging back- 

 wards : the legs of a dufky green. 



Thefe birds inhabit the fens near Spalding, where 

 they breed. I have feen both male and female, but 

 could not obferve any external difference. They 

 make their nefl not unlike that of the crefted grebe ; 

 and lay four or five fmall white eggs. 



The 



