PLATE LVI. 



PODICEPS MINUTUS, 

 LITTLE 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. 



GENERIC CHARACTER, 



Bill ftrait, flender, pointed. Noftrils linear. Lore bare of feathers* 

 Tongue (lightly cloven at the end. Body deprefled. Wings fhort, 

 No tail. Legs placed far behind. Toes furnifhed on each fide 

 with a broad plain membrane. 



SPECIFIC CHARACTER 



AND 



STNONTMS. 



Above, head, neck, breaft dark brown. Belly greyifh, with a glofly 

 appearance. Legs dirty greenifh colour. 



Colymbus Auritus. Linn. Syft. i. p. 223. 8. 7. 



Faun. Suec. p. 184. 

 Podiceps Minutus. Lath. Gen. Syn. v. 5. 289. 10. Suppl. in 



Lift of Birds of Great Britain. 

 Little Grebe. Latham. 



Penn. Br. Zool. N° 226. 

 Pjpper Didapper, Dobchick, &c. Rati Syn. p. 125, A. 3. 



Will. Orn. p. 340. ph 61. 



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