GREBE. 27 



Dusky Grebe, Gen. Syn. v. 286. Br. Zool. ii. No. 2-25. pi. 78. 1. Id.fol. 133. pi. 

 K. 1. Id. 1812. ii. p. 136. pi. 23. f. 1. Arct. Zool. ii. No. 420. Bewick, ii. pi. 

 p. 150. Lewiu, v. pi. 98. Walcot, i. p. 106. Donov. ii. pi. 44. Orn. Z>u-^. 



SIZE of a small Teal ; length eleven inches, Bill thirteen lines 

 long, black, with the sides red ; lore and irides red ; the upper 

 parts of the head, neck, and body, are dusky brown; ridge of the 

 wing white ; secondaries tipped with white; forehead, and all be- 

 neath, white; breast very glossy; at the throat the white passes 

 backwards almost to the hindhead ; and the brown comes forwards 

 on each side to the middle of the neck ; on the thighs a few black 

 spots; legs flesh-colour, tinged with purple; in some the whole 

 neck is ash-coloured, and others are spotted between the legs with 

 black. — Inhabits the Fens of Lincolnshire, where it breeds, makes 

 the same kind of floating nest as other Grebes, and lays four or five 

 white eggs. It is occasionally offered for sale, and Mr. Edwards 

 mentions his having had several out of the London markets, from 

 whence we have likewise received a specimen. Is found in the winter 

 in our inlets on the coast, particularly in Devonshire, where it is by 

 no means uncommon ; how it may belong to the Horned Grebe, we 

 are not prepared to determine. 



M. Tern mi nek says, it is the young of that bird, in its first 

 year's feathers. 



5— RED-NECKED GREBE— Pl. clxiv. 



Podiceps vubricollis, Ind. Orn. ii. 783. Tern. Man. 4C5. Id. Ed. 2d. 726. Frankl. 



Narr. App. p. 692. 

 Colymbus rubricollis, Gm. Lin. i. 592. 



— subcristatus, Gm. Lin.i. 590. Fn. suec. No. 152.— alia. Brun. No. 13S. 



Jaeq. Vog. 37. t. 18. Schr. d. Berl. Gesell. vii. s. 460. Besek. Kurl. s. 54. 



No. 104. 

 Colymbus minor ex nigro et rubro refectus, Gerin. v. t. 519. 

 ————— Urinator, It. Poseg. p. 25 ? 



griseus, Schcef. eh Orn. t. 29. Fn. Helv. 



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