28 GREBE. 



Le Grebe a Joues grises, Jougris, Buf. viii. 241. PL enl. 931. 

 Der Graukehlige Haubentaucher, Bechst. Deuts. ii. 790. t. 35. 

 Red-necked Grebe, Gen. Syn. v. 288. Id. Sup. 260. pi. 118. Br. Zool. 1812. ii. p. 



239. Arct. Zool. ii. 499. C. Id. Sup. p. 69. Bewick, ii. pi. p. 152. Lewin, v. 



pi. 199. JValcot, i. pi. 103. Donov. i. pi. 6. Orn. Diet. Sf Supp. 



LENGTH eighteen inches, to the end of the toes twenty-four; 

 weight seventeen ounces. Bill black, almost two inches long, the 

 sides for three quarters of an inch, fine orange yellow ; lore dusky; 

 irides orange ; the crown and sides of the head, above the eyes, 

 nearly black, and the feathers a little elongated ; neck behind, back, 

 and wings, dark brown ; six of the middle secondaries white, a little 

 mottled with dusky at the tips; the two or three next outward more 

 or less white near the ends, and inner webs ; chin, sides under the 

 eyes, and neck before, for more than an inch, pale ash-colour ; the 

 rest of the neck ferruginous chestnut, mottled on the breast with 

 dusky ; from thence to the vent white, with a gloss of satin, mottled 

 on the sides with dusky, irregular spots ; legs black. Male and 

 female much alike. In the young bird the colours are less bright, 

 and the ferruginous colour of the neck broken and indistinct.* 



A.— Colymbus Parotis, Gm. Lin. i. 592. Mus. Carls, i. t. 9. Brim. 139. hid. 



Orn. ii. 783. Gerin. v. t. 523 ? 

 Colymbus vulgaris, Scop. i. No. 102. Gen. Si/n. v. 283. — Notef 



In this bird the whole top of the head, including the eye, is 

 black, but smooth ; sides under the eyes, jaws, and throat, white, 

 marked with three or four irregular black streaks, pointing down- 

 wards ; irides yellow ; plumage in general brown above; sides of 

 the neck and throat ferruginous ; across the lower part of the neck 

 a white band ; breast and belly glossy white ; on the wing a large 

 white patch ; sides and vent soot-coloured ; legs dusky. 



* Colonel Montagu informed me, that five of these birds were shot on a lake near 

 Kingsbridge, Devon, in 1808 ; and that one of them, although a male, had no red on the 

 neck ; hence it appears, that this characteristic mark does not appear till adult age. 



