. A dictionary of birds . ra, but, Avith one exception, these seem to be insufficientlydefined, and here it will be enough to allow but two—Podicipes and ^ Often, but erroneously, written Podicipidse. The word Podiceps, as com-monly spelt, being a contracted form of the original Podicipes {cf. Gloger, Journalfiir Ornitholugie, 1854, p. 430, note), a combination of podex, podicis, and pes,pedis, its further compounds must be in accordance with its derivation. 382 GREBE the Centropelma of Messrs. Sclater and Salvin. Grebes are at oncedistinguishable from all other Water-birds by their very short
. A dictionary of birds . ra, but, Avith one exception, these seem to be insufficientlydefined, and here it will be enough to allow but two—Podicipes and ^ Often, but erroneously, written Podicipidse. The word Podiceps, as com-monly spelt, being a contracted form of the original Podicipes {cf. Gloger, Journalfiir Ornitholugie, 1854, p. 430, note), a combination of podex, podicis, and pes,pedis, its further compounds must be in accordance with its derivation. 382 GREBE the Centropelma of Messrs. Sclater and Salvin. Grebes are at oncedistinguishable from all other Water-birds by their very short body,and the peculiar structure of their feet, which are not only placedfar behind, but have the tarsi flattened and elongated toes furnishedwith broad lobes of skin. In Europe we have five well-marked species of Podicipes, thecommonest and smallest of which is the very well-known Dabchickof our ponds, P. fluviatilis or minor, found throughout the BritishIslands, and with a wide range in the Old World. Next in size are. Great Cbested Grebe. two species known as the Eared and Horned Grebes, the former ofwhich, P. nigricoUis, is a visitor from the south, only occasionallyshewing itself in Britain, while the latter, P. auritus, has a morenorthern range, breeding plentifully in Iceland, and is a not un-common winter-visitant. Then there is the larger Bed-neckedGrebe, P. griseigena, also a northern bird, and a native of the sub-arctic parts of both Europe and America, while lastly the GreatCrested Grebe, P. cristatns, or Gaunt—knoAvn as the Loon on themeres and broads of East Anglia,^ and some other parts of England,is also widely spread over both Worlds; and, though apparently 1 Cf. Stevenson and Southwell, Birds of Norfoll:, iii. i)p. 233-254. GREENFINCH 383 not found within the tropics, is knoAvn in the extreme south as anative of Australia and New Zealand. North America is creditedwith seven species of Grebes, of which three (P. cristatus, P. griseigena,and P. auritus) are
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