. Arctic zoology .. . called in the firft, the Hen-heakedWigeon, or Water Witch. Arrives there late in the autumnjand goes away in April, 419. LouisiAKE, Le Grebe de la Loulfianej De Bufon,vm. 240.—PI, Eal, N 943.—Latham, /~1R. The end of the bill (lightly bent : middle of the breaft white,tinged with dufky : fides of the neck and body, quite to the rump,ruft-colored : from the bafe of the neck to the thighs marked withlarge tranfverfe black fpots : upper part of the body and wings deepbrown : legs dufl^y. In Size rather lefa than the common Inhabits 420. DusKT.
. Arctic zoology .. . called in the firft, the Hen-heakedWigeon, or Water Witch. Arrives there late in the autumnjand goes away in April, 419. LouisiAKE, Le Grebe de la Loulfianej De Bufon,vm. 240.—PI, Eal, N 943.—Latham, /~1R. The end of the bill (lightly bent : middle of the breaft white,tinged with dufky : fides of the neck and body, quite to the rump,ruft-colored : from the bafe of the neck to the thighs marked withlarge tranfverfe black fpots : upper part of the body and wings deepbrown : legs dufl^y. In Size rather lefa than the common Inhabits 420. DusKT. Br, Zool. ii. N 225.—EJw. 96. fig. i.—^Le petit Grebe, De Buffon, vili. 232.— Fl, Enl, 942.—Lathanti iii. —Lev. Mus.—Bl. Mus. Cti^ ^^^ ^^ crown,, neck,, back, and primaries, dufky: ridge ofthe wings and fecondapies white :: reft of the wings dufky : breaftand belly filvery, but clouded. Size of a Sent from New Tork with the Horned Grel^ey as its fsmalej but is certainly a diftinft A. Great Crested Grebe, Br, Z»o/. ii. N 223.—Le Grebe cornu, De Buffon, •<i\\i,235.—Eaun, Suec, N 151.—Latiam/nu —Lev. Mus.—Bi. Mus. r^R. With the cheeks and throat furrounded with a long pendent rufF, of a bright tawny color: on the head a great dufky creft: hind part of the neck and back duflcy : primaries of the fame color : fecon- 7 ^daries EARED AND RED-NECKED QREBE. 499 daries white : breaft and belly of a glofly filvery white: outfide ofthe legs dufky -, infide greenilh. Weight two pounds and a twenty-one inches. Extent thirty. Inhabits Iceland, northern Europe, and the temperate and northern Place. parts of Sibiria, in every reedy lake. B. Eared, Br. Zonl. ii. N° 225.—lEdw. cj6, fig. ^Latham, in. Colymbus Auritus. Fiorna. Skr3;nIom, Faun. Suec. N ^Lev. Mus.—Bl. Mua. I^R. With crimfon irides: behind each eye a large tuft of ferrugi-nous feathers : the head, upper part of the body, and primaries,dufky : fecondaries w
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