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ORD. II. GENUS III. GREBE. 



Bill, ftrong, flender, fharp pointed. 



Nostrils, linear. 



Tongue, flightly cloven at the end. 



Body, depreffed. Feathers, thick fet, compact, and very fmooth and glofly. 



Tml, none. Wings, ihort. 



Legs, placed far backward, very thin, or much compreffed, and doubly ferrated behind. 



Toes, furnifhed on each fide with a broad, plain membrane. 



SPECIES I. CRESTED GREBE. 

 PI. 197. 



Colymbus criftatus. Lin. Syji. I. p. 232. 

 La Grebe huppee. Brif. Orn. VI. p. 38. 

 La Grebe cornue. lb. p. 45. 



This bird is about the fize of a moderate duck ; but meafures twenty-three inches in 

 length, as the neck is pretty long. The bill is of a reddifh flefli colour, with a brownifh 

 tip : eyes, red : the head, very much enlarged with tufted feathers, giving it an unnatural 

 appearance, as if furnifhed with a large rufF, the upper part of which ftands up like ears 

 on each fide of the hind head : this tufted part is black, except in the middle, where it is 

 of a bright and deep ruft-colour : the plumage is more or lefs of a brown colour, but the 

 under parts in general are of a delicate glofly filvery white : on the wing is a bar of 

 white : legs, duflcy, placed quite in the vent : rump, covered with long foft down. 



The tippet grebe, colymbus urinator, Lin. Sytt. I. p. 223, la grebe, Brif. Orn. VI. 

 p. 34, is this fpecies in its firft feathers, differing only in being fomewhat lefs, and want- 

 ing the tuft on the head, which it acquires in the adult ftate. The Ikin of the under 

 part, being dreffed with the feathers on, is made into muffs and tippets, whence the name 

 is derived. 



This fpecies is met with in various parts of the fenny places in England, and the fea- 

 coafts of Kent. It breeds in thofe of Shropfhire, Chefhire, and Lincolnshire ; makes a 

 large neft in the water, among the reeds, &c. ; and lays four white eggs. 



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