ORD. II. GEN. III. GREBE. 



SPE. II. EARED GREBE. 

 PI. 198. 



Colymbus auritus. Lin. Syfi. I. p. 223. 

 La Grebe a oreilles. BriJ. Orn. VI. p. 54. 



This is a beautiful fpecies, about the fize of a teal : in length one foot, 

 breadth twenty-two inches. The bill, black, {lender, and very flightly turned 

 upward : the bare fkin near it, red : eyes, crimfon : head, and neck, black : 

 the whole upper part of the body, of a blackifh brown, except the ridge of the 

 wing about the firft joint, and the fecondary feathers, which are white : the 

 breaft, belly, and inner coverts of the wings, filvery white : fides of the body 

 rutty chefnut : behind each eye is a tuft of orange coloured feathers, growing 

 broader, and almoft meeting behind : legs, dulky green. 



The female differs only in having the head lefs full of feathers. 



Like the preceding fpecies this is found in the fenny parts of England, and 

 on the fea coaft of Kent, in the winter. It breeds in the fens about Spalding 

 and other parts of Lincolnthire ; conftru&s a neft much as the former does in 

 the water ; and, like it, fits on the eggs, which are never dry. The eggs 

 are white, and about four or five in number. 







