■ each bird fells for about fourteen {hillings*. It is alfo mentioned
as-a common bird in the lakes of Sibiria; but not feen in Raffia t .
It is with feme reluctance that we pen our doubts concerning
the identity of this as a fpecies, at leaft as being diftinft from the
great crejled Grebe3 in contradiction to what former authors
have recorded on the fubjeCt. It is certain that the laft-named bird
varies exceedingly at different periods of life, from what has been,
faid above j and we are likewife as certain that the birds which
have been pointed out to us as the Geneva Grebes, have been no
other than young ones of the great crejled, not having yet attained
the creft; and, whoever will compare Brijfon’s three figures
of the birds in queftionj, will find (the creft excepted) that
they all exa&ly coincide, allowing for their different periods of
age. We have been further led into this opinion from the cir-
cumftance of a large flock of them, which appeared in various
parts of the fltores of the Thames, from Gravefend to Greenwich,
laft winter, many of which were killed and came under our in-
fpeftion : among them we found the greateft variety about the
head, from being perfeftly without a creft, to the moft complete
one, with all the intermediate ftages above mentioned.
3. Le grand Grebe, Ruf. Oif. viii. p. 242V
CAYENNE GR. Grebe de Cayenne, PL EnL. 404. fig. 1.
Description. T -1 H I S is nineteen inches and a half in length. The bill is
dulky j the under mandible yellow at the bafe: head, and
upper parts of the neck and body, dulky brown : fore parts, as faij
* Br. loot. t Mr. Pennant.
} Brif. vol. vi. pi. 3, fig. I, pi. 4. and pl.'S• fig- I.
6 as
as the breaft, and tides, rufous: the laft mixed with brown : breaft
and upper part of the belly white; the lower part, and vent,
brown : legs dulky.
Inhabits Captrine.
Colymbus auritus, Lin. Sjrß. i. p. 222. 8.— Faun. Bute. i$t. Scop. Ann. i.
N° 100.— Brun. 136. 137.— Mutter, p. 20.
La Grebe à oreilles, Brif. Orn. vi, p. 54. 6.
Le petit Grebe huppé, Buf. Oif. viii. p. 235.
Eared Dobchick, Edna. pi. 96. fig. 2.
-------Grebe, Br. Zool. N° 224. pi. 79.— Aril. Zool. p. 499. B.
Br. Muf. Lev. Muf.
bending a little upwards at the point; the colour of the bafe
reddilh: lore and irides crimfon : the head1 is very full of feathers,
and of a dulky black: the neck and under parts of the
body the fame * : from behind each eye fprings a tuft of orange-
coloured feathers, growing broader, and almoft meeting behind :
the breaft and under parts are filvery white; fides of the body
ferruginous chefnut: legs black.
The female differs in having the head lets full of feathers than
the male.
This is found in the northern parts o f Europe, the temperate
and northern parts of Sibiria, and in Iceland. Said alfo by Bougainville
to be met with in Falkland IJlands, where it was named the
Diver with Spebiacles J.
Place.
4-
+- EARED GR.
Description»
Female.
Place-
• In fome birds the fore part of the neck is mottled with white.
J See Bougn Voy» p. 61.