Order PYGOPODES. 
Bill straight and pointed. Wings short. Tail wanting or rudimentary. Tarsus highly- 
compressed ; feet lobed ; hind toe elevated. 
Plumage silky. Tibia enclosed within the integuments. Young following the parent when 
hatched. 
Genus PODICEPS. 
Bill straight, high at the base, pointed, the commissure nearly straight from the gape, which 
is angulated ; gonys short and ascending; nostrils oval, advanced, placed in a lengthened 
membrane. Wings short, concave, pointed ; the 1st and 2nd quills the longest ; the inner webs 
notched. Tail wanting. Tibia feathered nearly to the knee. Tarsus highly compressed, serrated 
posteriorly, scutellate anteriorly. Feet very large, webbed at the base, the terminal portion ol 
the toes lobed ; nails broad and flattened ; hind toe lobed. 
Neck slender. Under plumage silky. Sternum very short, broad, expanding at the posterior 
edge, with one rounded notch. 
PODICEPS FLUVIATILIS. 
(THE LITTLE GREBE.) 
Colymbus fluviatilis, Tunstall, Orn. Brit. p. 3 (1771, ex Briss.). 
Colymbus minor , Gm. ed. Syst. Nat. i. p. 591 (1788). 
Colymbus phiUppensis , Bonnat. Encyl. Meth. i. p. 58, pi. 46. fig. 3 (1823). 
Podiceps gularis, Gould, P. Z. S. 1836, p. 145. 
Podiceps philippensis (Gm.), Blyth, Cat. B. Mus. A. S. B. p. 311 (1849) ; Layard, Ann. & 
Mag. Nat. Hist. 1854, xiv. p. 270; Jerdon, B. of Ind. iii. p. 822 (1864); Holdsw. 
P. Z. S. 1872, p. 480; Legge, Ibis, 1875, p. 407 ; David & Oustalet, Ois. de la Chine, 
p. 512 (1877). 
Podiceps minor , Hume, Nests and Eggs, iii. p. 646 (1875); id. Str. Feath. 1879 (List B. of 
Ind.), p. 115. 
Podiceps fluviatilis (Tunst.), Dresser, B. of Eur. pt. 77-79 (1880). 
Le Castagneux ; Le Castagneux des Philippines , Buff. ; Little Grebe, Lath. ; LabchicJc, 
popularly. ChuraJca, Pandub, Pan tirri, Hind. ; Dubari, Bengal. ; ChumighaJc, lit. 
“ Diver,” Turki (Scully) ; Mukelepan, lit. “ Diver,” Ceylonese Tamils. 
Jjiya-Saaru, Sinhalese. 
Adv.lt, female (Ceylon). Length 9-2 inches ; wing 3-9 to 4-0; tarsus IT ; middle toe 1*8; hind toe 04 ; bill to gape 
1'0 at front 075 . — Male (Eurreedpore). Length 8T to 9‘0 inches; wing 3 - 75 to 4-0; tarsus 1-25; bill 
from gape 1-16 to 1-18, at front 0-8 to 083: weight 5-5 oz.— Female. Length 8-2 inches ; wing 3-83; tarsus 
1-25 ; bill from ga-pe 1-12, at front 0-77 : weight 5-87 oz. (Cripps).— Adult. (India, Brit. Mus.) Wing 3-7 ; tarsus 
1T8: bill at front 0-73. (England) Wing 3'85; tarsus 1T8 ; bill at front 067. — Male. (Egypt, Mus. Dresser) 
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