. A history of British birds. By the Rev. Morris .. . s, below yellowish white, but sometimes tending toorange buff. The greater wing coverts are broadly tippedwith white; primaries, greyish black; secondaries, partly-white, exhibiting a speculum of that colour; tertiaries, deepgreyish black; the shafts black. Legs and toes, dull reddishorange. The young are at first clothed in reddish brown andgreyish white down. Mr. Yarrell says For some time afterthey are hatched, the young chicks have their bills mottledblack and white; the head and neck ornamented with longdark stripes on a ground co
. A history of British birds. By the Rev. Morris .. . s, below yellowish white, but sometimes tending toorange buff. The greater wing coverts are broadly tippedwith white; primaries, greyish black; secondaries, partly-white, exhibiting a speculum of that colour; tertiaries, deepgreyish black; the shafts black. Legs and toes, dull reddishorange. The young are at first clothed in reddish brown andgreyish white down. Mr. Yarrell says For some time afterthey are hatched, the young chicks have their bills mottledblack and white; the head and neck ornamented with longdark stripes on a ground colour of dull greyish white; theupper surface of the body dark brown, with longitudinalstripes of light brown; the whole under surface white. In the immature plumage, the eye is yellow; there is butlittle crest under two years; the forehead is white, and onthe front of the head and the neck are numerous dusky-zigzag lines; the red about the head is wanting, and thereis a dusky streak in front of and under the eye; the sidesare dashed with yellowish 113 RED-NECKED GEEBE. Coi/mbus rubricollis, Gmelin. subcrigtatus, Gmelin. Podkeps rubricollis, Latham. CoJymbus—A Diver, Rubricollis. Ruber—Red. Collis—The neck. The Eed-necked Grebe is common in Sweden and Denmark,Holland, France, Switzerland, and Italy; as also in Germany,and the eastern countries of Europe. In Asia, it appears tobe found in Japan and Persia. In North America it was noticed by the lamented Sir JohnFranklin, during his expedition in 1822; and Audubon relatesthat it occurs in the Bay of Fundy, and in different partsof the United States. It is for the most part a sea bird, but occurs also fre-quently on lakes, ponds, and rivers, and in these latter itnidificates, as mentioned hereafter. In Yorkshire one was obtained in full plumage, inSeptember, 1852, off Bridlington Quay, by Mr. H. C. Weaver,of Newark, who records another killed on the banks of theTrent, about two miles above Newark,
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