. History of British birds : the figures engraved on wood . Vol. II. t U M4 BRITISH LITTLE GREBE. DOBCHICK, SMALL DOUCKER, DIPPER, OR DIDAPPER.(Colyml/us mlnutusy Lin.—Le Caflagneux^ Buff.) This Is the leaft of the Grebe tribe, weighingonly between fix and feven ounces, and meafuringto the rump ten inches, to the end of the toes thir-teen, and about fixteen from tip to tip of the bill is fcarcely an inch long, of a dulky reddifhcolour : irides hazel: the head is thickly cloathedwith a downy kind of foft feathers, which it canpuff up to a great fize, or lay down flat at pleafu
. History of British birds : the figures engraved on wood . Vol. II. t U M4 BRITISH LITTLE GREBE. DOBCHICK, SMALL DOUCKER, DIPPER, OR DIDAPPER.(Colyml/us mlnutusy Lin.—Le Caflagneux^ Buff.) This Is the leaft of the Grebe tribe, weighingonly between fix and feven ounces, and meafuringto the rump ten inches, to the end of the toes thir-teen, and about fixteen from tip to tip of the bill is fcarcely an inch long, of a dulky reddifhcolour : irides hazel: the head is thickly cloathedwith a downy kind of foft feathers, which it canpuff up to a great fize, or lay down flat at pleafure :the cheeks are moflly of a bay colour, fading to-wards the chin and throat into a yellowifli neck, breaft, and all the upper parts of theplumage, are of a brown or chefnut colour, ting-ed with red, lighteft on the rump: the belly iswhite, clouded with afh-colour, mixed with red:thighs and vent grey: greater quills dark brown jthe lelfer white on their inner webs : legs dirty olivegreen. BRITISH BIRDS. 155 The Little Grebe is a true aquatic, for it feldomquits the water,
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