LITTLE GREBE, 



Le Grebe castagneux. Temm. man. d'Orn, 471. Id. 2 Edit. 



ii. 727, Cuv. Reg. Anim. 1. 508. 

 Young. — Podiceps minor. Lath. Ind. Orn, 2, 784. Ray,Sijn. 



125. A. 



Colymbus minor. Gmel. Sj/st. Nat. 1. 59L 

 Colymbus fluviatilis. Briss. Orn. 6. 59. 



Le Grebe de la riviere^ ou le Castagneux. Buff. Hist. Nat. Ois. 



E. 244. pi. 20. Buff. PI. Enl. 905. 

 Little Grebe. Penn. Brit. Zool. 2. 226. Lath. Gen. Syn. 5. 289. 



Levo, Brit. Birds, 5. pi. 200. Mont, Orn. Diet. I. and Supp. 



Betv. Brit. Birds, 2. 154. Lath. Gen. Hist. x. 30. 

 Didapper. Wale. Syn. 2. pi. 1 05 . Don. Brit. Birds, 3. pi. 56. 



This is the smallest of the European Grebes, 

 scarcely exceeding ten inches in length : its beak 

 black, with the base of its under mandible and the 

 naked space near the eyes whitish : the irides are 

 reddish-brown : the throat, the top of the head, and 

 the nape are deep black, the sides and fore part of 

 the neck are bright chesnut-red : the breast and the 

 flanks are dusky : the rest of the under parts are 

 ashy-black, on which appear several white shades : the 

 thighs and the rump are tinged with reddish: the 

 upper parts of the plumage are dusky glossed with 

 olivaceous : the quills are ashy-brown : the secondary 

 quills are white at their base : the legs are outwardly 

 of a greenish-brown, inwardly of a flesh-colour. The 

 young of the second year, after their first moult, have 

 the top of the head, the nape, the upper parts and 

 the sides of the neck white, varied or marked with 

 bands and spots of deep reddish-brown : behind the 

 eyes are some oblique white streaks : the under part 

 and fore part of the neck, the breast, and flanks are 

 bright red : the thighs are dusky red : the middle of 



