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GAUNT. 



been observed in Sweden, Russia, and Siberia, and even as far as 

 Kamschatka, where it is said to be plentiful, and most probably breeds. 

 *It is common in the Orkneys.* 



GARULOUS ROLLER.— A name for the Roller. 



GAUNT (Podiceps cristatus, Latham.) 



Colymbus cristatus, Linn. Syst. 1. p. 222. 7. — Gmel. Syst. 2. p. 589. — Podiceps 

 cristatus, Ind. Orn. 2. p. 780. 1. — Colymbus major-cristatus, et cornutus, Rail, 



Syn. p. 124. A. 2 Will. p. 257. t. 61.— Colymbus cornutus, Briss. 6. p. 45. 



4. t. 5. f. 1.— Ib. 8vo. 2. p. 370.— Le Grebe cornu, Buff. Ois. 8. p. 235. t. 19. 

 — Greater crested and horned Ducker, Will. (Angl.) p. 340. 5. t. 61. f. 1. — 



Albin, 1. t. 81 Plot's Hist. Staff, p. 229. t. 22 Crested Grebe, Br. Zool. 2. 



No. 223 lb. fol. 132. t. K.— Arct. Zool. 2. p. 498. A. — Lath. Syn. 5. p. 281. 



l.—Lewin's Br. Birds, 5. t. 106.— Wale. Syn. 1. t. 102 Don. Br. Birds, 3. t. 



68 Colymbus cinereus-major, Raii, Syn. p. 124. A. 1. — Will. p. 357 — 



Albin, 2. t. 75 Colymbus cristatus, Briss. 6. p. 38. 2. t. 4 Ib. 8vo. 2. p. 368. 



— Le Grebe huppe, Briss. 8. p. 233. — Grey, or ash-coloured Loon, Will. (Angl.) 



p. 340. 4. t. 61. f. 4 Colymbus urinator. Linn. Syst. 1. p. 223. 9.— Gmel. 



Syst. 2. p. 593.— Colymbus, Briss. 6. p. 34. 1. t. 3. f. 1.— Ib. 8vo. 2. p. 368.— 

 Colymbus major Aldrovand, Raii, Syn. p. 125. 6 — Will. p. 256. t. 51 — Le 

 Grebe, Buff. Ois. 8. p. 227— Greater Loon, or Arsefoot, Will. (Angl.) p. 339. 

 t. 51.— Edw. t. 360. f. 2.— Tippet Grebe, Br. Zool. 2. No. 222. t. 78.— Ib. fol. 

 133.— Lath. Syn. 5. p. 283. 2. 



Provincial. — Cargoose. 



The variety of species authors appear to have made from this bird 



has obliged us to be more than usually diffuse in the synonimes ; all 



of which we consider to be mere variety, occasioned by age, sex, and 



season. 



A full-grown male Gaunt weighs between two and three pounds ; 

 length about two feet. The bill is two inches and three quarters 

 long, dusky brown along the ridge of the upper mandible and at the 

 point ; the rest reddish flesh-colour ; irides and lore crimson. The 

 head is much enlarged by a crest of a dusky colour, standing up on 

 each side ; the cheeks and throat are surrounded by long feathers of a 

 ferruginous colour; from the bill to the eye is a black line, above 

 which is a white one ; the chin is white ; the hind part of the neck, 

 and the upper part of the body and wings, dusky brown ; the under 

 part of the neck, breast, and all beneath, beautiful glossy white ; the 

 primary quill-feathers dusky ; some of the inner ones tipped with 

 white, the rest are nearly all white, which, when the wing is closed, 

 makes an oblique bar of that colour across it ; legs dusky on the out- 

 side ; some wholly dusky green. 



In a male bird now before us, the long feathers on the sides of the 

 head and throat are mostly dusky, with a mixture of ferruginous ; the 

 sides under the wings, and the thighs, dusky brown ; two or three of 

 the outer scapulars, and the ridge of the wing, white ; the lore is 

 dusky green. 



