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TAB. LXX. 
COLYMBUS hebridicus? 
Small Black-cliinned Grebe. 
Gen. Char. Bill toothless, subulate, straight, 
pointed. Throat toothed. Nostrils linear, at 
the base of the bill. Legs fettered. 
Spec. Char. Head smooth. Body blackish. Chin 
black. Throat ferruginous. Belly cinereous, 
mixed with a silvery hue. 
Syn. Black Chin Grebe. — Colymbus Hebridalis. 
Penn. no. 227. 
Colymbus Hebridicus? Gmel. 594. 
That a pair of Black-chinned Grebes should be taken with 
nest and eggs at Chelsea, must appear to all a very extra- 
ordinary circumstance, as the bird is understood to have 
been found only on the island of Tirie in Scotland. 
So little haS been said of it, that we readily transcribe 
all that is related in Pennant. “ Rather larger than the 
Little Grebe or Dobchick ; chin black ; fore part of the 
neck ferruginous ; hind part mixed with dusky ; belly ci- 
nereous and silver intermixed.” Having the birds before 
us, we think it would be unpardonable if we did not add a 
little to this account, by way of ascertaining whether this is 
the same bird as that of the Hebrides. Ours is rather less 
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