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COLYMBUS CORNUTUS. 
HORNED GREBE. 
Head glossy green ; through the eyes 
yellow-tufted banq!. 
Colymbus Cornutus, Lin. Gme. 
Grebe cornu ou Esclavon, Tem. 
Podiceps cornutus, Tem. Lath. 
Le petit Grebe cornu, Buff, 
- Sclavonian Grebe, Mont. 
Horned Grebe, Lath. 
The Ornithologist is indebted, we be- 
lieve, to G. Montagu, Esq. for the first 
notice of this bird as a British species. 
Our portrait is taken from the original 
bird now in the British Museum. It was 
killed near Truro, in Cornwall, on the 4th 
of May, 1796. 
This bird measures thirteen inches and 
a half in length, and the alar extent 
twenty-two inches. 
Sexes alike in plumage. 
