. The birds of Europe . but little external difference, both, we believe, always losingthe beautiful frill and red colouring of the neck in winter, and regaining them early in the succeedingspring. The young bird, when it has attained the full size, as in all this family, is of a greyish brown above, and whitebeneath, but may be distinguished by one character from the young of other species, namely, by the yellowcolour of the whole of the lower mandible except at its very tip. The adult colouring is as follows. The top of the head, the egrets, the occiput and back of the neck, black; the back
. The birds of Europe . but little external difference, both, we believe, always losingthe beautiful frill and red colouring of the neck in winter, and regaining them early in the succeedingspring. The young bird, when it has attained the full size, as in all this family, is of a greyish brown above, and whitebeneath, but may be distinguished by one character from the young of other species, namely, by the yellowcolour of the whole of the lower mandible except at its very tip. The adult colouring is as follows. The top of the head, the egrets, the occiput and back of the neck, black; the back and whole of the uppersurface of a brownish black, with the exception of the secondaries, which are white, so as to form a bandacross the wings ; front and sides of the neck deep chestnut; under surface white ; bill black, except at thebase, which is of a rich orange yellow ; irides scarlet; tarsi and toes dull olive green. Our Plate represents an adult in the summer plumage, and a bird of the year, of the natural 33 -§ i ^ 3=1 * &3 ^ CO 1 HORNED GREBE. Podiceps corrmtus, Lath. Le Gr&be cornu, ou Esclavon. This beautiful Grebe is one of the rarest of those that occasionally visit the British Islands, particularly whenit is adorned with the richly coloured plumes which characterize it in the adult state, a stage in which wehave illustrated both sexes. We would however observe, that this fine plumage is only confined to the birdsduring the breeding season ; at other seasons the plumage is less diversified, the frill and horns being alikeabsent, and the chestnut colouring of the neck being exchanged for greyish white ; in this stage as well asthat of the young it has been termed the Podiceps obscurus, Podiceps caspicus, &c. It is in the latter statethat it is most frequently seen on our shores, and in which it so closely resembles the young of Podicepscristatus as to require minute attention in order to distinguish them. To this difference we have alludedin the description
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