BRITISH BIRDS. 
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LITTLE GREBE. 
DOBCHICK, SMALL DOUCKER, DIPPER, OR DIDAPPER. 
[Colymbus mlnutusy Lin . — he Cajlagnenxy BufF.) 
This is the leafl of the Grebe tribe, weighing 
only between fix and feven ounces, and meafuring 
to the rump ten inches, to the end of the toes thir- 
teen, and about fixteen from tip to tip of the wings. 
The bill is fcarcely an inch long, of a dufky reddifh 
colour : irides hazel : the head is thickly cloathed 
with a downy kind of foft feathers, which it can 
puff up to a great fi^e, or lay down flat at pleafure : 
the cheeks are moflly of a bay colour, fading to- 
wards the chin and throat into a yellowifh white. 
The neck, breafl, and all the upper parts of the 
plumage, are of a brown or chefnut colour, ting- 
ed with red, lighted: on the rump : the belly is 
white, clouded with afh-colour, mixed with red : 
thighs and vent grey : greater quills dark brown ; 
the leffer white on their inner webs : legs dirty olive 
green. 
