PIED-BILL GREBE. 



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Colymbus fluviatilis Carolinensis. Briss. Orn. 6. 63. 



Le Castagneux a bee cercle. Buff, Hist. Nat. Ois. 8. 247. 



Pied-bill Grebe. Penn. Arct. ZooL 2. 418. pi. 22. Cafesbi/, 



Carol. I. pi. 91. Lath. Gen. Syn. 5. 292. Lath, Gen. Hist. 



X. 35. 



The Pied-bill Grebe is tbus described by Latham 

 from a specimen in his own collection : ** Length 

 fourteen inches : beak strong, a little bent, not unlike 

 that of the common poultry ; colour olive, with a 

 dusky base, and crossed through the middle of both 

 mandibles with a bar of black : nostrils veiy wide : 

 irides white : chin and throat of a glossy black, bounded 

 with white : upper part of the neck and back dusky : 

 cheeks and under parts of the neck pale brown : breast 

 and belly silvery, the first mottled with ash-colour : 

 wings brown ; end of the secondaries white : toes 

 furnished with a broad membrane. The female wants 

 the black bar on the beak, and has the chin and throat 

 of the same colour with the rest of the neck* Inhabits 

 New York to South Carolina." Also found by Cap« 

 tain Franklin in the Expedition to the northern 

 regions of America. 



V. xni. p. I. 



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