ClafsII.] B I R 
are of a moft beautiful filvery white,gloffy as fattin, 
and equal in elegance to thofe of the Grebe of 
Geneva ; and might be applied to the fame ufes : 
the legs are of a duiky hue. Thefe birds fre- 
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quent the lakes of Shropshire and Chejhire , where 
they breed. Their eggs are white, and of an 
oblong form. Thefe, like all the genus, are 
great divers, and live on fifti. 
SPECIES 
Greater Loon, or Arsfoot. ? JVil. 
orn. 339. 
Greater Dobchick. Edw. av. 3604 
Fig. 2. 
b> 
HIS differs from the preceding in be¬ 
ing rather lefs, and in wanting the creft 
and ruff, which adorns the head of the 
former: in all other refpe&s the marks agree, 
and the fame deferiptions may ferve for both. 
This fpecies is fcarce in England: but common 
II. The Grebe. 
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Ran fyn. av. 125. 
Colymbus. Brijfon av. VI. 34. Tab. 
3. Fig. 1. 
Gefner av. 138. 
in the winter time on the lake of Geneva. They 
appear there in flocks of ten or twelve : and are 
killed for the fake of their beautiful (kins. The 
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under fide of them being drefl: with the feathers 
on, are made into muffs and tippets $ each bird 
fells for about fourteen Ihillings. 
SPECIES III. 
Eared Dobchick. Edw. av. 96. 
Brijfon av. VI. 54. 
R. Edwards defcribes this fpecies from 
one taken near London ; the head 
and neck are black ; the throat fpot- 
ted with white : the whole upper fide of a black- 
ilh brown, except the ridge of the wing about the 
firff joint, and tips of the middle quil feathers, 
\vhich are white : the bread, belly and inner coverts 
The lefler crefted Grebe. 
Colymbus auritus. Lin. fyfl. 135. 
of the wings are white : between the dark on the 
upper fide, and white on the lower, is a mixture 
of rufi: colored feathers. Behind the eyes, on each 
fide, is a tuft of long loofe feathers, hanging back¬ 
wards. The irides are red : the legs of a dirty 
SPECIES IV. The white and dusky Grebe. 'Plate 1 . 
The black and white Dobchick. 
Edzv. av. 96 ? 
U R defcription and drawing is taken 
from a fluffed fldn 5 which obliges us 
to borrow part of the former from Mr. 
Edwards , who has given a more elegant figure of 
Colymbus minor. Brijfon av. VI. 
56. 
the fame bird. In fize it was equal to a teal. 
The bill was little more than an inch long. The 
crown of the head, and whole upper fide of the 
body dufky: the inner coverts, the ridge of the 
K k wing 
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