32 GREBE. 



Inhabits Tiree, one of the Hebrides. One, corresponding with 

 this description, was shot near Kingsbridge, Devon, and appeared 

 to Colonel Montagu a further Variety of the Little Grebe. 



According to the British Miscellany, a male and female with 

 the nest and eggs were taken in a pond, on Chelsea Common, in 

 June, 1805, and we are informed by Mr. Bullock, that they are not 

 unfrequent about Brompton, near London ; the egg of the Black- 

 chin Grebe is white. 



M. Temminck thinks it is the Little Grebe, in its complete adult 

 state. 



9.—WHITE-WINGED GREBE. 



Podiceps Dominicus, Ind. Orn. ii. 785. 



Colymbus Dominicus, Lin. i. 223. Gm. Lin. i. 593. Bris. vi. 64. t. 5. f. 2. Id. 



8vo. ii. 376. 

 Le Castagneux de St. Domiugue, Bvf. viii. 248. 

 Le Plongeon, Descr. Surin. ii. 155. 

 Twopenny Chick, Hughes, Barb. 72. 

 White-winged Grebe, Gen. Syn. v. 291. 



LENGTH from eight to nine inches. Bill pale, or dusky ; 

 head, neck, and upper parts of the body, chocolate brown ; beneath 

 brownish white; wings deeper brown ; quills white for three-fourths 

 of the length from the base, ends dusky ; legs greenish. Individuals 

 vary; some have a black bill, upper parts of the body dusky; 

 cheeks, chin, and neck before, dusky grey; breast, belly, sides, and 

 thighs, silvery grey, marked with small brown spots ; quills greyish 

 white, more or less marked with greyish brown on the outer webs and 

 tips; legs brown. 



The first described of these came from Berbice. I have seen also 

 a specimen from the Island of Trinidad ; another from the Island of 

 St. Domingo. I have received it too, from Jamaica, of an uniform 

 dusky lead-colour, except the middle of the belly, which had a large 

 patch of white; the quills were also as above described; this probably 



