Upper blackish-brown; white patch on wing; under silvery-gray; throat, side-face black (summer), brown (winter); beautiful fur-like plumage; lobed toes; f., sim. Small fish, snails, insects.
30[*] Hoary-headed Grebe, Dabchick (e), "Tom Pudding," P. poliocephalus, A., T.
Stat. c. lagoons, river 9.5
Upper brown; wings white patch; under silvery-gray; head short white hair-like plumes (summer); head brown, throat buff (winter); fur-like plumage; lobed toes; f., sim. Small fish, snails, insects.
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31 Great Crested Grebe (Tippet), Loon, Gaunt, Carr Goose, P. cristatus (Lophaethyia cristata, Mathews' Handlist), Eur., N. Asia, Japan, Africa, India to A., T., N.Z.
Stat. r. lakes, rivers 24
Upper brown; under glistening-white; crown black; neck-frill chestnut edged black (summer); face, neck whitish (winter); fur-like plumage; lobed toes; f., sim. Small fish, snails, insects.
F. 25. Colymbidae (Gaviidae), True Divers, Loons, 5 sp.—1(0)O., 5(0)P., 2(0)E., 5(0)Nc.