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Lc Grebe de la riviere, ou le Caftagneux. Brif. Orn, 6. p. 59. g. 



Buff. Oif. 8. /. 244. pi 20.— PI enl 905. 

 Trapazorola arzauolo, Piombin. Aldr. av. 3. 105. 

 Kleiner Seehahn, or Noerike. Frifch. 2. 184. 



This Bird frequents marfhy places with other fpecies of the fame 

 tribe. It makes a very large neft of grafs and aquatic plants in the 

 water, without any faftening to the banks, fo that the neft rifes or falls 

 with the water : it lays five or (ix eggs of a dirty yellowifh white 

 colour, which are kept conftantly wet by the water that rifes through 

 the neft : the natural warmth of the Bird when fitting excites a fer- 

 mentation in the vegetables, and ferves to hatch the young brood. 



It is a moft expert diver, and is faid by SaJerne* to be able to ftay a 

 quarter of an hour under water. If purfued it plunges into the water, 

 and feldom appears again within the reach of gun-fhot. 



Length of this fpecies is ten inches, weight fix ounces and a half* 

 The male very nearly correfponds in colours with the female, and 

 both vary according to their age. Having no tail, and the legs being 

 placed far behind, give a very aukward and clumfy appearance to this 

 bird. Common in moft parts of Europe, and mentioned as a native 

 of America, 



* Salcrns Orn. p. 377, 



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