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head, down to the middle of the neck, were black 

 and very full ; and the front of the neck below them 

 were of a reddilh orange color : the irides red. 



IV. The WHITE AND DUSKY GREBE. 



The black and white Dobchick. Bviffon a<v. vi. 56. 



Ednv. a<v. 96. fig. I. Br, Zool. 135. 



Coly mbus raiaor,la petite Grebe. 



IN fize it was equal to a teal. The bill was little Defer, 

 more than an inch long. The crown of the head, 

 and whole upper fide of the body dulky : the inner 

 coverts, the ridge of the wing, and the middle quil- 

 feathers were white : the reft of the wing dulky : a 

 bare fkin of a fine red color joined the bill to the eye: 

 the whole underfide from the chin to the rump was 

 white : on the thighs were a few black fpots. In fome 

 birds the whole neck was afh-colored : fo probably 

 they might have been young birds or different in fex. 

 We have frequently ken this fpecies fent out of 

 Lincoln/lure, where it breeds : and have obferved fome 

 with a fmall red tuft arifing from the ears, like that 

 of the laft fpecies, but greatly lefs ; neither had the 

 neck and bread the left tinge of red as the others 

 have ; but whether they form diftinct fpecies, or are 

 only varieties of the fame bird, we cannot determine. 

 But in refpefl to the following, the little grebe or dob' 

 chick, we venture to pronounce to be totally different, 

 (notwithstanding IJnnaus conftitutes but one fpecies 

 of our third, fourth, and fifth) having feen the fourth 

 3nd fifth kinds at different periods of their life; 



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