CoLYMBUS uRiNATOR, LtTi. S^st. V. I. p. 223, GmcL 
Si/st V. 2. p. 368. 
Tippet Grebe. Br. ZooL pr, ed, v.2. p. 222. Lath, 
Syn. V. 5. p. 283. Br. Zool. 8vo. ed. v. 2. 
p. 134. Mont. Orn. Diet. Bewick's Br, 
Birds, pt. 2. p. 138. 
The male of this species weighs from two pounds and a 
half to three pounds ; is nearly two feet in length, and about 
thirty-two inches in breadth. Bill nearly three inches long, 
strong and sharp pointed, in the spring it is of a deep flesh 
colour, but becomes darker as the year advances ; irides and 
lores bright scarlet ; legs thin, in some dusky, in others green. 
The female weighs less than two pounds ; length twenty- 
one inches; it has scarcely any of the crest-like feathers, 
and the colours are much lighter than in the male bird. 
Both sexes ars subject to very considerable diversity in depth 
and disposition of colour. The young males do not attain 
the full plumage for several years, and in the intermediate 
stages have been considered, by many writers, as a distinct 
species, and as such described under the name of Tippet 
Grebe, Cofi/mbus urinator of LinnaBi^s. 
On extensive waters that communicate with the ocean, 
and more particularly near their confluence, this species is 
oftentimes very abundant. In the fenny parts of Lincoln 
and Cambridgeshires, and on the extensive broads, (as they 
are termed) in Norfolk and Suffolk, they are extremely com- 
mon ; we counted twenty-six, at one time, on Filby broad, 
near Yarmouth ; and during severe weather they are often 
seen in flocks in the vicinity of the Thames. 
