CRESTED GREBE. 
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additions in the form of ruffs or elongations about 
different parts of the head and neck. They are more 
frequent on fresh waters than on the sea, and fly 
with reluctance. The species are more numerous 
than the last, and they are more generally distri- 
buted. 
Genus Podiceps. — Generic characters. — Bill 
of mean length, straight, slightly compressed, 
pointed; maxilla with a slight notch; man- 
dible with the lower outline sometimes show- 
ing a slight angle; nostrils lateral, linear, 
pervious, with a protecting membrane ; lores 
naked, wings short, concave; tail, a downy 
tuft ; legs placed far behind, tarsi much com- 
pressed, posteriorly serrated, toes flattened, 
outer longest, bordered with an ample lobed 
membrane, nails large, flat; hallux with a 
broad lobe. 
Types. — P. enstatus, minor, Sfc. Cosmopolite. 
Note . — Habits peculiarly aquatic, partially mari- 
time, breed on the water ; fly reluctantly ; — 
plumage of the summer characterised by tufts 
or gular ruffs. 
The Crested Grebe, Podiceps cristatus. — 
Colymbus cristatus, Linn. — Grebe huppe, Temm . — 
The Crested or Tippet Grebe, or Dab-chick of British 
authors. — This is a large and fine species, we believe 
the largest of the genus, and in the plumage of in- 
