292 vGjr Rlx. ELjB r»E .il.
vered with cottony white feathers ; the bill yellow, and the legs
flrort. He tells us that it is only feen in the favannas, near fmall
ponds, and feeds on the lefler fifi. It is molt likely that the
laft is the young of the others, and not a diftinft fpecies.
12.
BLACK CHIN
GR.
D e s c r i p t io n.
Black.chin Grebe, Br. Zool. N° 227. pi. 79*
B A T H E R larger than the little Grebe. Chin black : fore part
of the neck ferruginous ; hind part mixed with dufky : belly
cinereous and filver intermixed.
P la c e . Inhabits Tirée, one of the Hebrides.
4 *3- i T - PIED-BILL
GR.
Colymbus podiceps, Lin. SjJl. i. p. 223^. .11.
La Grebe de Riviere de la Caroline, Brij» Orn. vi, p. 63. 10.
Le Caftagneux à bec cerclé, Buf. OiJ- viii. p. 247.
Pied-bill Dobchick, Catejb. Car. i. pi. 91.—Arfi. Zool. N° 418. pi. 22.
Lev» Mu/»
D e s c r i p t i o n . T E N G T H fourteen inches. Bill ftrong, a little bent, not
unlike that of the common Poultry ; colour olive, , with a
dulky bafe, and eroded through the middle of both mandibles
with a bar of black : noftrils very wide : irides white : chin and
throat of a glofly black, bounded with white : upper part of the
neck and back dufky: cheeks and under parts of the neck pale
brown : bread and belly filvery, the firft mottled with afh-colour:
wings brown ; ends of the fecondaries white : tpes furnifhed with
a broad membrane.
F ema l e . The female wants the black bar on the bill, and has the chin
and throat of the fame colour with the reft of the neck.
P l a c e . Inhabits from New York, to South Carolina j is called in the
firft the Hen-beaked Wigeon, or Water Witch. Arrives there, late
in the autumn, and goes away in April.
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