204 PODICIPINiE. PODICEPS. SYLBEOCYCLUS. 
nest, and laying from five to seven yellowish-wliite eggs, an ; 
inch and three-fourths in length, and an inch and a quarter in 
breadth. In winter it is not extremely rare in Scotland, and 
occurs equally in England, where it has sometimes been found 
breeding. 
Horned Grebe. Horned Dabchick. 
Colymbus cornutus, Gmel. Syst. Nat. i. 591. — Podiceps 
cornutus, Lath. Ind. Ornith. ii. 782.-— Podiceps cornutus, 
Temm. Man. d’ Ornith. ii. 721. — Podiceps cornutus, Sclavo- 
nian Grebe, MacGillivray, Brit. Birds, v. 
274. Podiceps auritus. Eared Grebe. 
Male about thirteen inches long, with the bill much shorter 
than the head, nearly an inch in length, rather slender, de- 
pressed at the base, compressed and a little recurved toward 
the end, black tinged with blue ; two slight dusky occipital 
tufts, a short black ruff, and a tuft of elongated orange-red 
feathers from behind each eye; upper parts greyish -black, 
lower silvery-white ; sides light-red streaked with black. Fe- 
male similar, but somewhat smaller. Young without tufts, 
and having the upper parts blackish-brown, the lower silvery- 
white, the sides dusky, the throat and part of the cheeks 
white, and a portion of the fore-neck brownish-grey. 
Male, 13, 22, 5 T ^, Ji, 1*. 1'*, T V Female, 12 J, 20. 
This species is said to frequent the sea less than the others. 
It is abundant in the northern parts of Europe, and occurs also 
in America. In winter, it is not rare in many parts of Eng- 
land, but I have very seldom met with it in Scotland. Mon- 
tagu states that it bred in the fens of Lincolnshire, making a 
floating nest, and laying four or five white eggs. 
Colymbus auritus, Linn. Syst. Nat. i. 222. — Podiceps auri- 
tus, Lath. Ind. Ornith. ii. 781. — Podiceps auritus, Temm. Man. 
d’Qrnith. ii. 725. — Podiceps auritus, Eared Grebe, MacGilli- 
vray, Brit. Birds, v. 
GENUS CXXXVIII. SYLBEOCYCLUS. DABCHICK. 
This genus differs from Podiceps chiefly in having the 
body short and full ; the bill not so long as the head, mode- 
rately stout, tapering, much compressed, and pointed. Upper 
mandible with the dorsal line straight and slightly declinate 
to the middle, then convex, the ridge narrow, the nasal 
groove half the length of the bill, the edges sharp and a 
little inclinate, the tip direct, acute ; lower mandible with 
the angle long and very narrow, the dorsal line ascending 
and straight, the edges very sharp and direct, the tip acute. 
