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and skirting the black chin and centre of the throat ; sides of 
neck and fore-neck ashy-brown ; remainder of under surface 
white, thickly mottled with blackish centres to the feathers; 
sides of lower back and rump dark brown, with a slight reddish 
tinge, the feathers on the lower part of the abdomen darker 
grey; under wing-coverts and axillaries white Bill milk- 
white, crossed past the middle by a black band, the terminal 
portion more bluish ; eyelids white ; naked lores bluish ; iris 
rich dark brown, with an outer ring of ochraceous white, and 
an inner thread-like ring of pure white; tarsi and toes greenish 
slate-black on the outer, and plumbeous on the inner side” 
{R. RidgTvay). Total length, 13 'o inches; culmen, I'o; 
wing, 5-35 ; tail, 1-5; tarsus, i'5. 
Adult Female.— Similar to the male, but decidedly smaller. 
Total length, lo'o inches ; wing, 47. 
winter Plumage. — Browm above, with no black on the throat, 
which is white; otherwu’se as in the summer plumage, but the 
sides of the face are brown, and the lower throat, fore-neck, 
and sides of neck are rufous-browm ; “bill, horn-colour, becom- 
ing blackish basally, and on the culmen ; low’er mandible 
more lilaceous, with a dusky lateral stripe; iris of three dis- 
tinct colours, disposed in concentric rings, the first (around 
the pupil) clear milk-white, the next dark olive-brown, the 
outer pale ochraceous-brown, the dark ring reticulated’ into 
the lighter; tarsi and toes greenish -slate, the joints darker” 
{R. Ridgway). 
Kange in Great Britain. — A specimen of this Grebe was 
exhibited by me at a meeting of the Zoological Society on 
the 2ist of June, 1881. It was brought to the British 
Museum by Mr. R. W. Munro, who stated that it had been 
killed at Radipole, near Weymouth, in January, i88r. I 
took much pains to assure myself of the genuineness of the 
occurrence, and as the bird was sold to Mr. Munro as a Little 
Grebe, there does not seem to have been any attempt at 
deception. Mr. J. E. Harting, however, throws doubt on it, 
as he says that the specimen “ showed remains of longitudinal 
dark stripes on the neck, which are observable in the young 
of all the Grebes.” Mr. Harting should have added that 
these dusky streaks are often retained by the young Grebes of 
