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appearing in flocks often or twelve, and are killed chiefly on account 

 of their beautiful skins ; those of the breast, from their delicately 

 white and glossy appearance, being greatly esteemed, and dressed 

 with the feathers on, are made into muffs and tippets, and each valued 

 at fourteen shillings;* is said also to be common on the Lakes of 

 Siberia, but not seen in Russia.t 



2.— EARED GREBE. 



Podiceps auritus, Ind. Orn. ii. 781. Tern. Man. 469. Id. Ed. 2d. 726. 



Colymbus auritus, Lin. i. 222. Fn. suec. No. 152. Scop. i. No. 106. Brun. No. 



136,137. Midler, p. 20. Bris. vi. p. 54. 6. Id. 8vo. ii. 372. Borowsk. iii. 61. 



Fn. Helv. Gerin. v. t. 520. 

 Le petit Grebe huppe, Buf. viii. 235. 

 Der Ohrentaucher, Bechst. Deuts. ii. 796. 

 Eared Dobchick, Edw. pi. 96. f. 2. 

 Eared Grebe, Gen. Syn. v. 285. Br. Zool. ii. No. 224. pi. 79. Id.fol. 133. Id. 1812. 



ii. 135. pi. 24. f. 2. Arct. Zool. ii. 499. B. Boug. Voy. p. 61 ? Bewick, ii. p. 



149. Lewin, v. pi. 107. Donov. ii. pi. 29. Orn. Diet. Sf Supp. 



SIZE of a Teal ; length twelve inches. Bill one inch, black, 

 bending a little upwards at the point, the base reddish ; lore and 

 jrides crimson; the head full of feathers, dusky black; the neck and 

 under parts of the body the same ; from behind each eye arises a tuft 

 of orange-coloured feathers, growing broader, and almost meeting 

 behind ; breast and under parts silvery white ; sides of the body 

 ferruginous chestnut; legs black. The female is in all things like 

 the male, but the head less full of feathers. 



This species is not unfrequent in England, but, we believe, less 

 numerous than the Greater ; most common in the fens of Lincolnshire, 

 where it breeds, but by no means the chief place of its residence, for 

 a pair of them were found many years since, in Sandwich Haven, 

 in the month of August ; and Mr. Mark wick received one, killed 



* Br. Zool. f Mr. Pennant. 



