. The birds of America : from drawings made in the United States and their territories . rs that they inhabit rivers, lakes, and the borders of thesea, but in greater number on fresh-waters; are tolerably common in differentparts of Europe; feed on small fish, fry, amphibious reptiles, insects, andvegetables; form their nests of the same materials, and place it in the samesituations as the Crested Grebe, and lay three or four eggs. An egg lentme by my esteemed friend Mr. Yarrell, measured two inches in length byone inch and a quarter in breadth, and was of a uniform pale greenish-white. Podice
. The birds of America : from drawings made in the United States and their territories . rs that they inhabit rivers, lakes, and the borders of thesea, but in greater number on fresh-waters; are tolerably common in differentparts of Europe; feed on small fish, fry, amphibious reptiles, insects, andvegetables; form their nests of the same materials, and place it in the samesituations as the Crested Grebe, and lay three or four eggs. An egg lentme by my esteemed friend Mr. Yarrell, measured two inches in length byone inch and a quarter in breadth, and was of a uniform pale greenish-white. Podiceps rubricollis, Bonap. p. 417. Podiceps rubricollis, Red-necked Grebe, Swains, and Rich. F. Bor. Amer., vol. ii. p. Grebe, Nutt. Man., vol. ii. p. Grebe, Podiceps rubricollis, And. Orn. Biog., vol. iii. p. 617; vol. v. p. 620. Male, ISf, 32. \ fc ^ fe s»\ •1 \ i. fc5 : C ^d THE RED-NECKED GREBE. 313 During winter, not uncommon from New York to Maine. Breeds in theFur Countries. Accidental in the interior. Adult Male. Bill about the length of the head, straight, rather slender, compressed,acute. Upper mandible with the dorsal line straight and slightly sloping tothe middle, then slightly convex, the ridge convex, the sides sloping,towards the end erect and convex, the edges acute and inflected. Nasalgroove extending to the middle of the mandible; nostrils sub-basal, linear-elliptical, pervious. Lower mandible with the angle long and extremelynarrow, the dorsal line ascending and straight, the sides erect, slightlyconvex, the edges sharp, inflected, the tip narrow, very acute. Head of moderate size, oblong, compressed. Neck long and depressed. Feet large, placed very far behind; tibia feathered almostto the joint; tarsus short, extremely compressed, anteriorly with a narrowscutellate ridge, laterally with very broad scutella, poster
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