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^RED-NECKED
GR.
Pl . c x v i i i .
G e n u s L X X IX . G R E B E .
Red-necked Grebe, Gen. Syn. v. p. 288. N° 7.
Colymbus fiibcriftatus, Jacq. p. 37• Pt l8-
Colymbus parous, Sparrm. Muf. Carlf. pi. g.
D'KS'C&X-PTION.
T E N G T H eighteen inches; to the end o f the toes twenty-
^ fou r . weight feventeen.ounces. Bill nearly two inches long;,
fides o f the bafe o f both mandibles, for three quarters of an inch,,
o f a fine orange yellow; the reft black : lore brown or blackilh:
irides fine orange red - the crown, and fides of the head above the
eyes, nearly black, and the feathers a little elongated : the hind
part of the neck, the back, and wings, dark brown; fix of the
middle fecondaries white, a little mottled with dulky at the tips;.
the two or three next outward ones more or left- white near th e
tips and -inner webs : the chin, fides under the eyes, and fore part
of the neck, for above an inch, pale alh-colour; the reft of the
neck ferruginous chefnut, mottled on the breaft with dulky.: from
thence, to the vent, white, like fattin,.mottled on the fides with
dulky irregular fpots : legs black.
I received a perfeft fpecimen of the male of this bird from Major
Hammond, who informed me, that the end o f April1 the year
1786, two o f them alighted in a farm-yard, near his houfe \nEaft
Kent, and were taken alive,
I have alfo met with two other fpecimens ; the firftTent to me;
January 28, 1786, by M r. Martin, of ’f eingnieuth, a gentleman to
whom I owe many other obligations : his fpecimen had not come-
to perfection, as the colours o f the head and neck were much
blended,. mm m r.A sr/ ' lyrr-eA rjA
m®.