. The water birds of North America [microform]. Birds; Water-birds; Oiseaux; Oiseaux aquatiques. 438 THE DIVING BIRDS — I'YGOrODES. Gents FODICEPS, Latham. Podiccps, iiATii. Iiul. Orii. II. 17t>0, 780 dmit ; type, by cliiniimtion and restriction, Colymbtis fluviatilis, TuN! T.). TachijhapUis, Reicuenh. Syst. Av. 1852, p. iii (tyix;, Cobjmbtis minor, ,= C'. Jiuvialilh, ). Chau. Very small (winj,'not more than 4.(X) inches). Neck much smaller than the body ; bill shorter than the head, the culmen less than 3 times the basal depth ; tarsus decidtidly shorter than the middle toe wi
. The water birds of North America [microform]. Birds; Water-birds; Oiseaux; Oiseaux aquatiques. 438 THE DIVING BIRDS — I'YGOrODES. Gents FODICEPS, Latham. Podiccps, iiATii. Iiul. Orii. II. 17t>0, 780 dmit ; type, by cliiniimtion and restriction, Colymbtis fluviatilis, TuN! T.). TachijhapUis, Reicuenh. Syst. Av. 1852, p. iii (tyix;, Cobjmbtis minor, ,= C'. Jiuvialilh, ). Chau. Very small (winj,'not more than 4.(X) inches). Neck much smaller than the body ; bill shorter than the head, the culmen less than 3 times the basal depth ; tarsus decidtidly shorter than the middle toe without idaw ; adult in breeding-plimiage without ornamental tufts (or, in the American species, colored patclies). Althouj,di (juite dill'erent in its c(donition from the type of the genus (I'.Jliiviatilis), which has the head briglitly coloreil in the breeding-season, the American species which we place here agrees very minutely in the details of form. Podiceps dominicus. THE LEAST GREBE. Coli/iiibus dominu', Lixx. S. N. I. 1700, 223 (based on Colymbits fluviatilis dominwcnsis, Hniss. Orii. VI. 1700, 04, pi. .5, tig. 2). Podiceps dominicus, InJ. Orn. II. 1790, 785. — liAiun, Rep. U. S. & Mex. Bmind. Survey, II. 185!), pt. ii. IJirds, 28 ; Birds N. Am. 1800, pi. 99, fig. 1 ; Cat. N. Am. 15. 1859, no. 708<r.—CoiJES, Key, 1872, 338 ; Cheek List, 1873, no. 013 ; ed. 2, 1882, no. 851. SyllH'ocyc!us dominicus, Coi'Es, I'r. Ac. Nat. Sci. I'hilad. 1802, 232. Podiceps (Tachybaptcs) dominicus, I'ouEs, Birds N. \V. 1871, 730. Tachybaptcs dominicus, UiDow. Noni. N. Am. B. 1881, no. 734. Hah. The whole of tropical America, both continental and Antillean; south to Paraguay, north to Texas and Lower California. Sp. Char. Adult, hrccdiutj-phimwic: Head .nnd neck dark grayish or dull jdumbeous, tlie pileum slightly glossy greenish black, the chin and throat dull black ; remaining upper parts dusky brown, the remiges ligiit brownish gray, with their imier webs ehiet
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