( 7* ) 



ORD. II. GEN. III. GREBE. 



SPE. IV. RED-NECKED GREBE. 

 PI. 200. 



This fpecies has long been known to exift in other parts of Europe, but has 

 been but lately found to be an inhabitant of England. Its length is eighteen 

 inches. The bill, black at the end, yellowifh toward the bottom : eyes, yel- 

 low : the feathers of the head fomewhat tufted, and of a deep brown, nearly 

 approaching black : the upper parts of the body for the moft part deep brown, 

 with a bar of white on the wings : the chin, fides under the eyes, and a fmall 

 part of the neck, pale afh-colour; the reft of the neck, ruft-coloured, mottled 

 on the breaft with duiky : thence to the vent filvery white, mottled on the 

 fides with dulky fpots : legs dufky. 



This bird is certainly not common in this kingdom, though we have heard 

 of its being (hot in three or four different places. The fpecimen from which 

 our drawing was taken is in the collection of Mr. Latham. 



Bechftein, a German writer, who appears to be in general a very accurate 

 obferver, affirms, that this is the male of the dulky grebe. His dufky grebe, 

 however, for which name he quotes Pennant, and to which he gives the fyno- 

 nime of colymbus obfeurus, Linn, appears to exceed ours in fize, being 

 larger than the eared grebe, and meafuring thirteen inches in length, and 

 twenty-fix in breadth: in all other refpe&s the defcription agrees with ours. 





