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Type, adult taken on the tableland, several thousand feet above the 
Olifants River at Klaver. It is much larger than an adult male taken at 
Lormarins and three others from Knysna and Grahamstown. Compared 
with the first the dimensions are as follows : 
Total 
Length 
Wing 
Tail 
Tarsus 
Culmen 
Klaver 
160 
87 
62 
23 
13-5 
Lormarins 
155 
77 
58 
20 
12-5 
Proctopus nigricollis gurneyi subsp. nov. 
Gurney (Ibis, 1868, p. 263 and 1869, p. 303) pointed out that the South 
African Eared Grebe, which breeds here, differed from European specimens 
in being smaller and having the ear coverts pater. This I am able to confirm 
from an adult $ in nuptial dress, taken at Lamberts Bay. The bill is appar- 
ently broader, though slightly shorter than in European specimens, and the 
ear coverts are almost entirely glossy straw yellow, with only a wash of 
chestnut on the lower fourth. I therefore confer this name upon the 
S. African birds in recognition of one who contributed much to our knowledge 
of birds in S. Africa. 
Type, from Lamberts Bay, November, 1917, in Transvaal Museum 
Collection. 
CAMBRIDGE: PRINTED BY J . B. PEACE, M.A., AT THE UNIVERSITY PRESS 
