BRITISH BIRDS. 
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GREAT-CRESTED GREBE. 
GREATER-CRESTED DOUCKER, CARGOOSE, ASH-COLOUR- 
ED LOON, OR GAUNT. 
l^Colymbus cr^atiiSy Lin . — Le Grebe huppe^ BufF.) 
This bird is the largeft of the Grebes, weigh- 
ing about two pounds and a half, and meafuring 
twenty-one inches in length, and thirty in breadth. 
The bill is about two inches and a quarter long, 
dark at the tip, and red at the bafe : the bare ftripe, 
or lore, between the bill and eyes, is, in the breed- 
ing feafon, red, afterwards changes to dulky : irides, 
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