. An illustrated manual of British birds . elongated pale chestnut feathers on each side of the head ; crown,forehead, chin and tippet black ; upper parts dark brown ; seco?ida/-icschiefly 7L/nle, except the three outer ones, 7vhich are mainly dusky, likethe primaries; neck, breast and flanks warm chestnut; belly white ;bill straight, nearly black, except the tip which is whitish; irides red;legs and toes dark greenish-brown outside, yellower on the innersurface. Length 135 in.; wing 5*5 in. The male is the larger andhas more developed head-ornaments, but otherwise the sexes arealike externall
. An illustrated manual of British birds . elongated pale chestnut feathers on each side of the head ; crown,forehead, chin and tippet black ; upper parts dark brown ; seco?ida/-icschiefly 7L/nle, except the three outer ones, 7vhich are mainly dusky, likethe primaries; neck, breast and flanks warm chestnut; belly white ;bill straight, nearly black, except the tip which is whitish; irides red;legs and toes dark greenish-brown outside, yellower on the innersurface. Length 135 in.; wing 5*5 in. The male is the larger andhas more developed head-ornaments, but otherwise the sexes arealike externally. After the autumn moult the irides are paler, thecrest and tuft are absent, and the under parts are chiefly white, thethroat and flanks being streaked with dusky-grey. The youngresemble the adults in winter-plumage. It is unfortunate that the specific name auritns, which Linnaeusundoubtedly used for the Slavonian Grebe, should have been divertedby Latham and others to the next species ; thereby causing greatconfusion. 707. ■S^S THE BLACK-NECKED OR EARED GREBE. PoDTciPES NiGRicoLLis, C. L. Brehm. This Crebe is rather smaller than the preceding species, and isits very opposite as regards distribution ; for this is essentially asouthern bird which occasionally pushes its migrations in si)ringand summer as far to the north-west as the British Islands, whileit also visits us—though far more rarely—in autumn and winter,to escape the severe cold of the Continent. Birds in completebreeding-dress have been obtained, at intervals, in most of oursouthern counties, and rather plentifully in .Sutfolk and Norfolk ;there is, indeed, strong presumptive evidence that the species hasbred in the latter, for Mr. E. T. Booth had a full-plumaged adultand a couple of downy mites brought to him by a marshmansome years ago (C/. Tr. Norfolk & N. Nat. Soc. vol. iv. p. 416, foot-note). As we continue northward, we find this Crebe becomingscarcer, though it can be traced to the Orkne
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