HORNED DOECHICK. 
placing it as his fifth species of Chesniit, he 
should have made it an eleventh of his Grebe. 
The plumage of the Grebe, particularly 
that of the breast,, is a fine down, very close 
and firm, and regularly dispersed, the glistening 
filaments of; which lay on each other, and 
unite, so as to form a glossy, shining surface, 
equally impenetrable by cold or humidity : 
this clothing, so necessary to the Grebe, which 
in the severest winter remains constantly in 
the water, is formed into those well known 
beautiful silvery white muffs, which possess 
the soft closeness of down, with the agreeable 
elasticity of feathers, and the ricli lustre of silk. 
The Horned Dobchick, or Horned Grebe 
of Buffon, is the Colymbus Cornutus of Gme- 
lin, the Podiceps Cornutus of Latham, and 
the Eared or Horned Dobchick of Edwards. 
Jt's specific chara6ler is, that the head is a 
glossy green; witli a yellovv* bar at the eye, 
extended behind like a liorn or crest. 
There is no appearance of a tail. The 
thighs are so bound within the skin, that the 
bird. 
