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PODICERS RUFICOLLIS, 
RED-NECKED GREBE. 
ANSERES. 
Bill obtufe, covered with a thin membrane, broad, gibbous below 
the bafe, fwelled at the apex. ‘Tongue fiefhy. Legs naked. Fect 
webbed, or finned. 
GENEIRTG CHARACTER. 
Bill ftraight, flender, pointed. WNoftrils linear at the bafe of the 
Bill. Legs placed near the tail. Feet flat, thin, and ferrated behind 
with a double row of jotches. 
SPECIFIC CHARACTER, 
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SYNONYMS, 
Bill black, with the bafe of each mandible fine yellow. Irides 
bright orange-yellow, Crown, and fides of the Head above the Eyes 
black-brown, with the feathers a little elongated. -The hind part of 
the Neck, Back, and Wings, dark brown; fix of the middle fecon- 
daries white, a little mottled with dufky at the tips: the two or three 
next outward, are more or lefs white near the tips and inner webs. 
The Chin, fides under the Eyes, and fore part of the Neck, for above 
an inch, pale afh-colour; the reft of the Neck ferruginous chefnut, 
mottled on the Breaft with dufky; thence to the Vent, white, like 
fattin, mottled on the fides with dufky irregular {pots. Legs black. 
CoLymeus supcRistatTus, Facg. Vog. p. 37. pl. 18. 
CoLymBus PAROTIS, Sparrm. Muf. Carls. pl. 9. 
| Popicers Ruricotiis. Lath. Gen. Syn. §. 288-7.—Supp. 260. 7. 
Rep-NeckepD Gress. Lath.—Arét, Lool. p. 499. C. 
Le Grebe a joues grifes, ou le Jougris, Buf. Oif vit. p. 240..PL 
Bey 21 LBhL o3%, 
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