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EARED GREBE. 
PODICEPS AURITUS, Lath. 
PLATE CCCCLX.XXII. — Adult and Young. 
The specimens from which my figures of this species of Grebe have been 
taken, were lent me by my noble and kind friend the Right Honourable the 
Earl of Derby, who received them from North America, where, as I am 
assured, it is not uncommon, although it has not been my good fortune to 
meet with it. 
Eared Dobchick or Grebe, Podiceps auritus, Nutt. Man., vol. ii. p. 256. 
Eared Grebe, Podiceps auritus , Aud. Orn. Biog., vol. v. p. 108. 
Adult 13, wing 5 T 8 2. 
Very rare, and not found by me in America. 
Adult Male. 
Bill shorter than the head, as broad as high at the base, compressed and 
slightly recurved toward the end; upper mandible with the dorsal line 
straight and slightly declinate to beyond the nostrils, then direct, butslightly 
descending toward the tip, the ridge convex, the edge incurved, the tip 
acute ; lower mandible with the angle long and extremely narrow, the dorsal 
line beyond it ascending and slightly convex, the sides sloping outwards and 
a little convex, the edges direct, the tip acute. Nostrils linear, basal, rather 
small, pervious. Gap-line almost straight, being a little recurvate. 
Head of moderate size, oblong, compressed ; neck long, slender ; body 
depressed. Feet short, large, placed close to the extremity of the body ; 
tibia feathered to -within two-twelfths of an inch of the joint ; tarsus 
extremely compressed, its anterior edge with a row of small scutella, the 
sides with broad scutella, beyond which are some irregular scales, the 
posterior edge with a double line of small prominent scales ; first- toe very 
small, with an inferior membrane, fourth longest ; anterior toes scuteilate, 
connected at the base by a membrane, and having on both sides an expanded 
web-like margin, marked with oblique lines, and having a crenulate edge ; 
claws flat, that of the third toe very broad, obliquely obovate, abrupt. 
Plumage very soft, blended, on the lower parts silky, on the back glossy 
