ClafsII. GREAT CRESTED GREBE. 393 



the channel near Southampton covered with them : 

 they are often brought to that market, where they 

 are expofed to fale, without their feathers, and fcalded 

 like pigs. Authors mention * another fpecies of 

 coot, which is larger and of a fuller black than this ; 

 we believe it is found in hancafhire^ having feen the 

 head and feet of one mot in that county of a fize far 

 fuperior to thofe of the common kind. 



Genus X. G R E B E S f . 

 h GREAT CRESTED GREBE. 



Grand Plongeon de riviere. Colymbus criftatus. Lin. fiyfi. 



Belonav. 178. 222. 



Ducchel. Gefinerav. 138. Faun. Suec./p. 151. 



Aldr. a<v. iii. 104. La Grebe hupee. Brijfon a<v< vi. 



Avispugnax 8va. Aldr. 169. 38. tab. 4. et Colymbus cer- 



Greater crefted and horned nutus. ^5. tab. $. fig. 1. 



Doucker. WiL om. 340. Smergo, Fifolo marino. Zinan. 



ABi-colored Loon of Dr. Brown, 1 07. 



ibid: Raiifyn. av. 124. Danis Topped Og Halfkraved 



Plod's hijl. Staff. 229. tab. 22. Dykker, Topped HavSkicere. 



The Cargoofe. Charleton ex. 107. Brunnich. 135. 



Pet. Gaz. i. tab. 43. fig. 12. Br. Zool. 132. 



THIS fpecies weighs two pounds and a half. Defer, 

 Its length is twenty-one inches : the breadth 

 thirty : the bill is two inches one-fourth long ; red at 

 the bafe 5 black at the point : the irides are of a fine 



* Greater coot. WiL orn. 320. La Macroule. Brijfin a-v. vi. 

 28. tab. 2. fig. 2. Fulica aterrima. Lin.fyfi. 258. 



f The Grebes and Divers are placed in the fame genus, i. e. of 

 Colymbi, by Mr. Ray and Linnaus ; but the difference of the feet, 

 forbade our judicious friend, M. B'iffon, from continuing them 

 together ; whofe example we have followed. 



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