BRITISH BIRDS, 
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EARED GREBE, 
OR EARED DOBCHICK. 
( Colymlus auritus^ Lin . — Le petit Grehe huppe, BiifF. ) 
This bird meafures about twelve inches in length, 
and twenty-two from tip to tip of the wings. The 
bill is black, inclining to red towards the bafe, ra- 
ther flender, nearly an inch long, and flightly bent 
upwards at the point : lore and irides red : the head 
is thickly fet and enlarged with feathers of a footy 
black colour, except two large, loofe and fpreading 
orange-coloured tufts, which take their rife behind 
each eye, flow backward, and nearly meet at their 
tips : the neck and upper parts of the plumage are 
black, the under parts of a gloflfy white ; the fides 
a rufly chefnut colour : legs greenifli black. The 
male and female are nearly alike, only the latter is 
not furniflied or pufled up about the head with fuch 
a quantity of feathers. 
This fpecies is not numerous in the Britifh Ifles. 
Pennant fays they inhabit and breed in the fens near 
Spalding, in Lincolnftiire, and that the female makes 
a nefl not unlike that of the Creflied Grebe, and 
lays four or five fmall white eggs. The Eared 
Grebe is found in the northern regions of Europe, 
as far as Iceland, and is alfo met with in fouthern 
climates. The circumnavigator Bougainville fays, 
it is called the “ Diver with Spedacles” in the 
Falkland Iflands, 
