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GAUNT. 
been observed in Sweden, Russia, and Siberia, and even as far as 
Kamscbatka, where it is said to be plentiful, and most probably breeds. 
*It is common in the Orkneys.* 
GARULOUS ROLLER. — A name for the Roller. 
GAUNT (Podiceps cristatus, Latham.) 
Colymbus cristatus, Linn. Syst. 1. p. 222. 7. — Gmel. Syst. 2. p. 589. — Podiceps 
cristatus, Ind. Orn. 2. p. 780. 1. — Colymbus major-cristatus, et cornutus, Raii, 
Syn. p. 124. A. 2. — Will. p. 257. t. 61. — Colymbus cornutus, Briss. 6. p. 45. 
4. t. 5. f. 1. — Ib. 8vo. 2. p. 370. — Le Grebe cornu, Buff. Ois. 8. p. 235. t. 19. 
—Greater crested and horned Ducker, Will. (Angl.) p. 340. 5. t. 61. f. 1. — 
Albin, 1. t. 81. — Plot’s Hist. Staff, p. 229. t. 22. — Crested Grebe, Br. Zool. 2. 
No. 223. — lb. fol. 132. t. K. — Arct. Zool. 2. p. 498. A. — Lath. Syn. 5. p. 281. 
1. — Lewin’s Br. Birds, 5. t. 106. — Wale. Syn. 1, t. 102 Don. Br. Birds, 3. t. 
68. — Colymbus cinereus-major, Raii, Syn. p. 124. A. 1. — Will. p. 357 — 
Albin, 2. t. 75. — Colymbus cristatus, Briss. 6. p. 38. 2. t. 4 Ib. 8vo. 2. p. 368. 
— Le Grebe huppe, Briss. 8. p. 233. — Grey, or ash-coloured Loon, Will. ( Angl.) 
p. 340. 4. t. 61. f. 4.1 — Colymbus urinator, Linn. Syst. 1. p. 223. 9. — Gmel. 
Syst. 2. p. 593. — Colymbus, Briss. 6. p. 34. 1. t. 3. f. 1. — Ib. 8vo. 2. p. 368. — 
Colymbus major Aldrovand, Raii, Syn. p. 125. 6. — Will. p. 256. t. 51. — Le 
Grebe, Buff. Ois. 8. p. 227. — Greater Loon, or Arsefoot, Will. (Angl.) p.339. 
t. 51. — Edw. t. 360. f. 2. — Tippet Grebe, Br. Zool. 2. No. 222. t. 78. — Ib. fol. 
133. — Lath. Syn. 5. p. 283. 2. 
Provincial. — Cargoose. 
The variety of species authors appear to have made from this bird 
has obliged us to be more than usually diffuse in the synonimes ; all 
of which we consider to be mere variety, occasioned by age, sex, and 
season. 
A full-grown male Gaunt weighs between two and three pounds ; 
length about two feet. The bill is two inches and three quarters 
long, dusky brown along the ridge of the upper mandible and at the 
point ; the rest reddish flesh-colour ; irides and lore crimson. The 
head is much enlarged by a crest of a dusky colour, standing up on 
each side ; the cheeks and throat are surrounded by long feathers of a 
ferruginous colour; from the bill to the eye is a black line, above 
which is a white one ; the chin is white ; the hind part of the neck, 
and the upper part of the body and wings, dusky brown ; the under 
part of the neck, breast, and all beneath, beautiful glossy white ; the 
primary quill-feathers dusky ; some of the inner ones tipped with 
white, the rest are nearly all white, which, when the wing is closed, 
makes an obhque bar of that colour across it ; legs dusky on the out- 
side ; some wholly dusky green. 
In a male bird now before us, the long feathers on the sides of the 
head and throat are mostly dusky, with a mixture of ferruginous ; the 
sides under the wings, and the thighs, dusky brown ; two or three of 
the outer scapulars, and the ridge of the wing, white ; the lore is 
dusky green. 
