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LOUISIANE GREBE. 



(Podiceps Ludovicianus.) 



Vo.J'iiscuSi lateribus colli corporisque Jerrugineis, corpore subtus 

 albo macidis transversis nicrricantibus. 



Brown Grebe with the sides of the neck and of the body rust- 

 colour, the body beneath white, with transverse dusky spots. 



Podiceps Ludovicianus. Lath. Ind. Orn. 2. 785. 



Colymbus Ludovicianus. Gmel. Si/st. Nat. 1. 592. 



Le Grebe de la Louisiana Buff. Hist. Nat. Ois. 8. 240. Buf, 

 PI. Enl. 943. 



Louisiane Grebe. Lath. Gen. Syn. 5. 289. Penn. Arct. Zool. 

 2. 419. Lath. Gen. Hist. x. 36. 



Native of Louisiane : its beak is slightly bent at its 

 point : the upper parts of the head and body are deep 

 brown : the sides of the neck and body, quite to the 

 rump, are ferruginous : the middle of the breast is 

 dusky white : from the base of the neck to the thighs 

 marked with large transverse black spots : legs dusky. 



NEW HOLLAND GREBE. 



(Podiceps Novae Hollandiae.) 



Po. supra nigricante cinereoque undidata, subtus pallide cinered, 

 tectricibus alarmn majoribus albis, colli lateribus striga rufa. 



Grebe waved above with dusky and cinereous, beneath pale cine- 

 reous, with the greater wing-coverts white^ the sides of the 

 neck with a rufous stripe. 



New Holland Grebe. Lath. Gen. Hist. x. 33. 



