Order PODICIPEDIFORMES 
No. 69. 
Family PODICIPEDIDM. 
PODICEPS FLUVIATILIS NOV^-HOLLANDI.E. 
BLACK-THROATED GREBE. 
(Plate 62.) 
PoDiCEPS Nov^-Hollandi.e Stephens, in Shaw’s Gen. Zool., XIII., Pt. i., p. 18 (1826) 
(ex Latham), Australia, New South Wales. 
New Holland Grebe Latham, Gen. Hist. B., X., p. 33 (1824). 
Podiceps novce-hollandice Stephens, in Shaw’s Gen. Zool., XIII., p. 18 (1825) ; Ramsay, 
P.L.S., N.S.W., I., p 200 (1877) ; id., Tab List Austr. B., p. 22 (1888) ; North, Austr. 
Mus. Cat., No. 12, p. 348 (1889) ; Keartland, Trans. Roy. Soc. S. Austr., XXH., 
p. 191 (1898); North, B. County Cumb., p. 116 (1898). 
Podiceps gularis Gk)uld, P.Z.S., p. 145 (1836) ; id., Syn. B. Austr., PI. 19 (1837) ; id., B. 
Austr., VII., PI. 81 (1848) ; Sturt, Narr. Exp. Centr. Austr., App., p. 59 (1849) ; 
Castelnau and Ramsay, P.L.S., N.S.W., I., p. 386 (1876) ; Gould, Handb. B. Austr., 
II., p. 513 (1865) ; Keartland, B. Melb. Dist., p. 121 (1900). 
Tachybaptes gularis Bonaparte, Compt. Rend., XLII., p. 775 (1856). 
Podicipes novce-hollandice Ogilvie-Grant, Cat. B. Brit. Mus., XXVI., p. 519 (1898) ; Campbell, 
Nests and Eggs Austr. B., p. 1002 (1901) ; Oates, Cat. Birds’ Eggs Brit. Mus., I., 
p. 134 (1901) ; HaU, Emu, III., p. 43 (1903) ; Barnard, ib., p. 236 (1904) ; Hall, 
Key B. Austr., p. 104 (1906) ; Berney, Emu, VI., p. 156 (1907) ; Ingram, Ibis, p. 392 
(1907) ; id., ib., p. 461 (1908) ; Mathews, Handl. B. Austral., p. 14 (1908) ; id.. 
Emu, IX., p. 54 (1909) ; Ogilvie-Grant, Ibis, p. 186 (1910) ; Littler, Handb. B. 
Tasmania, p. 203 (1910). 
Colymbus fluviatilis novce-hollandice Hartert, Nov. Zool., XII., p. 199 (1905). 
Distribution. Australia generally ; Tasmania. 
Adult male, breeding. Upper-surface dark brown, with a tinge of grey on the wings ; wing- 
coverts like the back ; bastard-wing and primary-coverts dark brown ; primary- 
quiUs dark brown, white at base which increases in extent towards the inner ones ; 
secondaries white, with a shade of brown on the outer webs ; the long innermost 
secondaries brown with white bases ; head black, glossed with green ; a line of chest- 
nut from behind the eye which widens out on the sides of the neck ; throat patch 
glossy black ; fore-neck rusty-brown ; feathers of the breast tipped with dark brown, 
more intensely on the sides, giving a speckled appearance ; remainder of the under- 
surface pearly-white, becoming dusky on the sides of the body and sides of vent ; 
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