. A history of British birds, indigenous and migratory: including their organization, habits, and relation; remarks on classification and nomenclature; an account of the principal organs of birds, and observations relative to practical ornithology .. . eyish-black, with the feathers margined with dull primary quills are greyish-black on the outer, dusky-grey on the inner web ; the two first secondaries similar, thenext with a patch of white, the next ten almost entirely white,three with white toward the base, the rest and the tertiariesblack; the lower wing-coverts, some of the feathe
. A history of British birds, indigenous and migratory: including their organization, habits, and relation; remarks on classification and nomenclature; an account of the principal organs of birds, and observations relative to practical ornithology .. . eyish-black, with the feathers margined with dull primary quills are greyish-black on the outer, dusky-grey on the inner web ; the two first secondaries similar, thenext with a patch of white, the next ten almost entirely white,three with white toward the base, the rest and the tertiariesblack; the lower wing-coverts, some of the feathers on thefore edge of the wing, and a patch across the humerus, contents of the stomach were vertebrae and other bonesof fishes, green conferva?, and a quantity of feathers. Length to end of tail 17-^ inches ; extent of wings 30 ;bill along the ridge 1-L^ ; along the edge of lower mandible2-Jj; wing from flexure 1^ ; tarsus 2-^; outer toe 2/^, itsclaw jij. Remarks.—In all stages this species may easily be dis-tinguished from Podiceps cristatus, by the form and colour ofits bill, which is much thicker, and has the base colouredwith yellow instead of carmine. 264 rODICEPS CORNUTUS. THE HORNED GREBE. SCLAVONIAN GREBE. HORNED ColymbuR romntus. Gnicl. Syst. Nat. I. 591. Podicops cnnuitus. Lath. Ind. Omitli. II. 782. kSclavonian Orobc. Mont. Ornith. Diet, and Supplt. Grebe cornii ou Esclavon. Podiccps cornutiis. Tcmm. Man. ddrnitb. II. Grebe. Podiccps conuitns. Solby, Illnstr. II. comtitus. Sclavonian Grebe. Jennyns. Brit. Vert. Anini. comutus. Bouap. Comp. List. 65. ^^lde about fourteen inches hnp,7rith the Jnllmuch shorterthan the head, nearlji an inch in length, rather stout, com-pressed, lilack, with ilx li])s j/cllou- ; two large Jhiht-rcd occi-]iif(d tufts, and an }dc tiJacI: rujf; tlie upper jnirts (jreyish- HOXERl) GREBE. 265 Hack ; the lower ; uith the fore part of the neckand the sides of the body
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