Plate CCXCII. Male and Female.
Male with the bill about the length of the head, rather slender,
blackish-brown, tinged with carmine; feet greenish-black, tinged with
greyish-blue; tail of fourteen feathers; two tufts of elongated
feathers on the occiput, and a large frill on the sides and anterior
part of the neck; upper part of head and tufts greyish-black, tinged
with green, as is the hind part of the ruff, its anterior part being
brownish-red; sides of the head and throat white; fore neck white,
tinged with brown; breast silvery-white, sides reddish-brown, with
dusky streaks; upper parts brownish-black, the feathers edged with
lighter, the sides of the neck tinged with reddish, as is the rump;
wing-coverts greyish-brown; primary quills brownish-black, middle
secondaries, inner webs of their coverts, and outer webs of outer
scapulars, white. Female with the occipital feathers a little
elongated, but without the ruff; bill dusky green, upper part of head
and hind neck blackish-grey; back and wings as in the male, but more
tinged with grey; lower parts silvery-white, the sides dusky.
_Male_, 24, 33.
Not uncommon during autumn and early spring on all the larger streams
of the Western Country, as well as on the coast of the Atlantic, from
Nova Scotia to Texas. Breeds in the mountainous parts of the Fur
Countries, Rocky Mountains, and high latitudes. Migratory.
Podiceps cristatus, Bonap. Syn. p. 417.
Podiceps cristatus, Crested Grebe, Swains. & Rich. F. Bor.
Amer. v. ii. p. 410.
Crested Grebe or Gannet, Nutt. Man. v. ii. p. 250.
Crested Grebe, Podiceps cristatus, Aud. Orn. Biog. v. iii. p.
598.