OUEBE. 25 



3— HORNED GREBE. 



Podiceps cornutus, lnd. Orn. ii. 782. TeW. Man.. 467. Id. Ed.u. 722. Frank!., Nar. 



App. p. C93. 

 Podiceps Caspicus, Tree/. Orn. ii. p. 784. Gm. Lin. i. 593. 5'. G. Gtnel. It. iv. 137. 



A T . Nord. Beylr. iv. p. 9. 

 Colymbus cornutus, Gm. Lin.\. 591. Bart. Trav. p. 293. 

 Colymbus cornutus minor, £m. vi. 50. Id. 8vo. ii. 371. 

 Colymbus, sive Podiceps minor, liaii, 190. 14. Sloan. Jam. 322. t. 271. f. 1. Klein, 



p. 150. 4 ? 

 Ardea exotica aurita, Petiv. Gaz. t.43. f. 12. 

 Le petit Grebe cornu, Bit/", viii. 237. 

 Grebe d'Esclavonie, PI. enl. 404. 2. 

 Caspian Grebe, Gen. Syn. Sup. ii. 329. 

 Eared Grebe, or Horned Dobchick, Edw. pi. 145. 

 Sclavonian Grebe, Orn. Diet. Sf Supp. Gen. Si/n. v. 288. 6. Br. Zool. 1812. ii. p. 



141. Graves, v. iii. 

 Horned Grebe, Gen. Syn.v. 287. 6. pi. 91. 



LARGER than the Dusky Grebe ; length thirteen inches and a 

 half; breadth twenty-two. The bill nearly one inch, dusky; base 

 of the under mandible paler, inclining to pink, tip horn-colour ; the 

 lore crimson ; irides the same, with a circle of white round the pupil ; 

 head enlarged with feathers, those on the top greenish black ; the 

 cheeks and throat the same, the feathers very long, forming a sort of 

 ruff; from the base of the upper mandible originates a broad bar of 

 dull orange yellow, passing through the eye to the hindhead, growing 

 broader, and forming a tuft on each side, and capable of being erected 

 like ears ; the forehead dusky ferruginous ; the back of the neck 

 and upper part of the back dark brown, dashed with ferruginous ; 

 from thence to the rump dusky, faintly edged with cinereous ; wing 

 coverts, and first twelve quills brown ; the thirteenth white on the 

 inner web ; the eleven next all white, except the last, which is brown 

 on the outer web ; chin black, a little mottled with white, the under 

 part of the neck and upper breast bright ferruginous, running far 



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