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PODICEPS MINOIl. 
LITTLE GREBE. 
Generic Character. See Podiceps cristatus. 
Synonyms. 
Podiceps Minor Ind. Orn. 2. p. 784. 9, 
CoLFMBUs Minor. Lin. Syst. ]. p. 591. 20. 
Little Grebe. Br. Zool. 8vo. ed. v. 2. p. 137. 
Lath. Syn» 5. p. 289. 10. Mont, 
Orn. Diet. Bewick's Br, Birds, Pt, 
2. p. 144, 
HIS species is in length from eight to ten inches, in 
breadth nearly sixteen inches, and weighs five to seven 
ounces; bill slender; irides reddish; toes fringed with a 
beautiful semi-transparent edging. Colours nearly alike in 
both sexes, varying with age. 
A bird resembling, in size, the one here figured, but very 
much darker coloured, is now and then met with, and has 
been considered by some authors as a distinct species, and 
as such figured and described under the name of Podiceps 
hebridicus, Black chin Grebe ; but from the variations 
the present species affect in colour, we are under doubts 
with regard to the specific differences supposed to exist 
between the species. 
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