SLAVONIAN GREBE. 
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THE HORNED GREBES. GENUS DYTES. 
Dytes, Kaup. Naturl. Syst. p. 49 (1829). 
Type D. auritus (Linn.). 
The Horned Grebes have the bill shorter than in the Great 
Crested Grebes, the length of the bill from the gape being 
less than that of the inner toe and claw. The form ot 
the bill, too, is stouter and rather more curved at the tip. The 
tippet, too, is more dense and entirely black, and extends over 
the entire throat, the feathers of which are full, the black tippet 
being surmounted by a band of crested plumes along the 
sides of the crown from the eye, forming a crest. 
I. THE SLAVONIAN GREBE. DYTES AURITUS. 
Colyifibus auritus, Linn. Syst. Nat. i. p. 222(1766). 
Podiceps cornutus, Gm. ; Macgill. Bnt. B. v. p. 264 (1852); 
Seebohm, Hist. Brit. B. iii. p. 462 (1885). 
Podiceps auritus, Dresser, B. Eur. viii. p. 645, pi. 631 (1879); 
B. O. U. List Brit. B. p. 203 (1883); Saunders, ed. 
Yarrell’s Brit. B. iv. p. 128 (1884); Lilford, Col. Fig. 
Brit. B. part xxvii. (1893). 
Podicipes auritus, Saunders, Man. Brit. B. p. 705 (1889). 
{Plate CXV.) 
Adult Male. — General colour above black, slightly Varied with 
greyish edges to the feathers ; wing-coverts ashy-brown, as also 
the quills, the primaries with dusky blackish tips, the second- 
aries pure white, the innermost secondaries black like the 
back ; tail black ; crown of head black, the hind-neck brown- 
ish black ; the sides of the face and upper throat black, the 
feathers on the posterior part of the face being very long, and 
forming a frill round the back of the head, which is further 
ornamented by a broad superciliary band of chestnut feathers, 
rather paler and more tawny above the eye, this superciliary 
band produced backwards on the sides of the nape so as to 
form a dense tuft of horn-like plumes ; the lower throat, fore- 
neck, as well as the sides ol the body, deep vinous chestnut, 
the feathers of the latter slightly varied with dusky blackish 
tips, the feathers near the vent also dusky brown ; remainder 
of under surface of body silky white ; under wing-coverts and 
