2 9 8 LITTLE GREBE. 1 Clafs IL 



and the third we infert on the authority of Mr. 



Edwards. 



V. The LITTLE GREBE. 



Le CaSagneux, cu Zoucet. Be/on foot. Wil. orn. 340. 



an). 177. Raiifyn. an). 125. 



Mergulus fluviatilis (Ducchelin, Colymbus fluviatilis, la Grebe 



Arfsfufs.) Gefner am. 141. de Riviere, ou le Caftagneux, 



Trapazorola arzauolo, PiOmbin. Brijfon an), vi. 59. 



Aldr. an), iii. 105. Colymbus auritus. Lin. Jyji. 223. 



Didapper, Dipper, Dobchick, Faun. Suec. fp. 152. 



fmall Doucker, Loon, or Arf- Br. Zool. 134. 



Tefcr. ^p H E weight of this fpecies is from fix to (even 

 -^ ounces. The length to the rump ten inches : 

 to the end of the toes thirteen : the breadth fixteen. 

 The head is thick fet with feathers, thofe on the 

 cheeks, in old birds are of a bright bay: the top of 

 the head, and whole upper fide of the body, the neck 

 and bread, are of a deep brown, tinged with red : the 

 greater quil -feathers duiky: the interior webs of the 

 leffer white : the belly is afh-colored, mixed with a 

 filvery white, and feme red: the legs of a dirty green. 

 The wings of this fpecies, as of all the others are 

 fmall, and the legs placed far behind : fo that they 

 walk with great difficulty, and very feldom fly. 

 They truft their fafety to diving ; which they do with 

 great fwiftnefs, and continue long under water. 

 Their food is rim, and water plants. This bird is 

 found in rivers, and other frefh waters. It forms its 

 neft near their banks, in the water ; but without any 

 faftning, fo that it riles and falls as that does. To 

 make its neft it collects an amazing quantity of grafs, 



water 



