PODICEPS AURITUS. 
EARED GREBE, 
Generic Character. See P. cristatus. 
PoDicEPs Auritus; fusco nigricans, subtus albu^ 
capito nigro, auritus cristate ferrugineis. 
Eared Grebe. Body blackish brown, beneath white 
head black, ear-like feathers ferruginous. 
PoDicEPs Auritus. Latham Ind. Orn, v. 2. p. 381. 
CoLYMEus Auritus. Lin. Si/sL v. I. p, 222, GmeL 
Lin. Si/st, V. 2. p. 590. 
Le petit Grebe huppe. Hist. d'Ois, v. 8. p, 235. 
La Grebe a Oreilles. Brisson Av. v, 6. p. 54. 
Grebe Oreillard. Temm. Man, Orn. ed, 2, pt 2 
p. 12b, 
Eared Dobchick. Edward's Av. t. 96. Jig. 2. 
Eared Grebe. Br. Zool. Svo. ed, v, 2. p. 135. 
pi. xxiv. Arct. Zool v. 2, p. 499. Lath. 
Syn. V. 5. p. 285. Lewin Br. Birds, 5. 
t. 107. Don. Br. Birds, v. 2. t. 29, 
Mont Orn. Diet, lb. Sup. ^ Plate. 
Bewick Br. Birds, pt. 2. p. 139. 
The length of this species is about one foot, breadth 
twenty-two inches. Bill slightly inclining upwards at the 
point, lore and irides bright scarlet ; feathers of the head, 
soft and thickly set, so as to give it an appearance of bulk 
greater than it really possesses ; feathers behind the eyes 
longer and capable of being erected in tufts,at the pleasure 
of the bird; it is from these feathers that the species has 
