PLATE XLIV. 



PDDICEPS* NIGRICANS. 



DUSKY GREBE. 



A N S E R E S. 



Bill obtufe, covered with a thin membrane, broad, gibbous below 

 the bafe, fwelled at the apex. Tongue flefhy. Legs naked. Feet 

 webbed or finned. 



GENERIC CHARACTER. 



Bill flrong, flender, and fharp pointed. Noftrils linear. Space be- 

 tween the eye and bill bare of feathers. Tongue flightly cloven at the 

 end. Body deprefTed : feathers thick fet, compact, and very fmooth and 

 glofly. Wings fliort. No tail. Toes furnifhed on each fide with 

 # broad plain membrane. 



SPECIFIC CHARACTER, 



« AND 



SYNONYMS. 



Bill black. Lore and irides red. Upper parts of the head, neck, 

 and body dufky brown, beneath filvery white. Legs dirty olive, 



* We have had occafion in a former defcription to mention the alteration made by 

 Brljfon in the Colymbus genus of Ray and Linnaus j and fince adopted by our Englifli 

 ornithologifts, Pennant and Latham, In the Linnsn genus are included the Grebes, Guille- 

 mots and Divers, which as they differ materially in the form of their feet, have been fe- 

 p^rated by thofe later authors inlo diftinfl; tribes.— Podiceps is the new generic title 

 given by Latham to the Grebes* 



Podiceps 



