GREBE 



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14— PIED-BILLED GREBE. 



Podiceps Carolinensis, Ind. Orn. ii. 785. 



Colyinbus Podiceps, Lin. i. 223. Gm. Lin. i. 594. 



Colymbus fluviatilis Carolinensis, Bris. vi. 03. Id. 8vo. ii. 375. 



Colymbus fuscus, Klein, 150. 5. Bartr. Trav. p. 293. 



Le Castagneux a bee cercle, Buf. viii. 247. 



Pied-bill Grebe, Gen. St/n. v. 292. Arct. Zool. ii. 418. pi. 22. Cates. Car.], pi, 91. 



LENGTH fourteen inches. Bill strong, a little bent, somewhat 

 in the manner of Common Poultry ; colour olive, with a dusky base, 

 and crossed in the middle of both mandibles with a bar of black ; 

 nostrils very wide ; irides white; the chin and throat glossy black, 

 bounded with white ; neck above, and back dusky ; cheeks and fore 

 part of the neck pale brown ; the breast and belly silvery, the first 

 mottled with ash-colour; the wings brown, ends of the second quills 

 white ; toes furnished with a broad membrane. 



The female wants the black bar across the bill, and has the chin 

 and throat of the same colour as the rest of the neck ; it appears also 

 to be smaller than the other sex, being only twelve inches long to the 

 end of the rump, sixteen inches and a half to the end of the toes, 

 and twenty inches broad. 



Mr. Abbot, who gives me this account, observes, that it is common 

 in the rivers and ponds about Savannah, in Georgia; makes the nest 

 in the water, like other Grebes ; the egg of a dusky white, with 

 scarcely any perceivable markings of darker colour; called Didapper, 

 or Water Witch. Found as far north as New York ; arrives there 

 late in autumn, and goes away in April ; is called there the Hen- 

 beaked Wigeon. This is in the complete plumage, and the Louisiane 

 probably a young bird. 



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