S9 6 LESSER CRESTED GREBE. ClafsII. 



the marks agree, and the fame defcriptions may ferve 

 for both. This fpecies is fcarce in England: but 

 common in the wintertime on the lake of Geneva. 

 They appear there in Hocks of ten or twelve: and 

 are killed for the fake of their beautiful fkins. The 

 under fide of them being drefl with the feathers on, 

 are made into muffs and tippets ; each bird fells for 



about fourteen (hillings. 



. 



III. The LESSER CRESTED GREBE. 



Eared Dobchick. Ed-zv. cv. 96. 22J. 



fig. 2. Norvegzs Sav-Orre, Soe-Orre,. 

 La Grebe a Oreilles. Brijjbnav. Bornholmis Soe-Hoene. IJlandii 



vi. 54. Flauefkitt. Brunnicbi^h. 



Colymbus aaritus. Lin. fyji. Br. Zool. 133. 



D-fcr T^ HIS fpecies is rather lefs than a teal : the head 

 -*- and neck are black ; the throat fpotted with 

 white : the whole upper fide of a blackifii brown, 

 except the ridge of the wing about the firft joint, and 

 tips of the middle qui! feathers, which are white: the 

 bread, belly and inner coverts of the wings are white: 

 between the dark on the upper fide, and white on the 

 lower, is a mixture of ruft-colored feathers. Behind 

 the eyes, on each fide, is a tuft of long loofe feathers, 

 hanging backwards. The irides are red : the legs of 

 a dirty green. This fpecies was found in the London 

 markets by Mr. Edwards, in the winter of 1739 ; he 

 afterwards received another from Hudfotfs Bay, which 

 he thinks the male of this. From the bill to the 

 eyes was a bare ftripe of red j the feathers round the 

 % head, 



