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WHITE-WINGED GREBE. 



(Podiceps Dominicus.) 



Po. cnpite IcBvi, corpore subtus confertim fusco macidato. 



Grebe with the head smooth, the body beneath thickly spotted 



with brown. 

 Podiceps Dominicus. Lath, Ind. Orn. 2. 785. 

 Colymbus Dominicus. Linn. Syst. Nat. 1. 223. Gmel. Syst. 



Nat. 1. 593. Briss. Orjr. 6- Q4.pl. 5./. 2. 

 Le Castagneux de St. Dominique. Buff. Hist. Nat. Ois. 8. 248. 

 White- winged Grebe. Lath. Gen. Syn. 5. 291. Lath. Gen, 



Hist. X. 32. 



The white-winged Grebe is a small species, being 

 scarcely eight inches in length : its beak is black : the 

 upper parts of the plumage are dusky : the sides of 

 the head, the chin , and the fore part of the neck, are 

 dusky-grey : the quills are greyish-white, more or less 

 marked with spots of greyish-brown on their outer 

 webs and tips : the breast, belly, sides, and thighs 

 are silvery grey marked with small brown spots : the 

 legs are brown. Dr. Latham mentions several va- 

 rieties ; one of them (from Jamaica) was of a uniform 

 dusky lead-colour, with a large patch of white on the 

 middle of the belly ; and another differed merely in 

 having that part wholly brown. 



They inhabit various parts of the West India 

 Islands, and the northern coasts of South America. 

 At Barbadoes they are called Twopenny Chicks. 

 They feed on fish. 



