Specimens of this Grebe were obtained near Cordova by White in 1882.
[422.] TACHYBAPTES DOMINICUS (Linn.).
(AMERICAN DABCHICK.)
Podiceps dominicus, Burm. La-Plata Reise, ii. p. 521 (Pampas); Baird, Brew., et Ridgw. Water-B. N. A. ii. p. 438. Tachybaptes dominicus, Scl. et Salv. Nomencl. p. 150; Durnford, Ibis, 1877, p. 203 (Buenos Ayres), et 1878, p. 405 (Centr. Patagonia); White, P. Z. S. 1882, p. 629 (Buenos Ayres); Withington, Ibis, 1888, p. 473 (Lomas de Zamora). Sylbeocyclus dominicus, Scl. et Salv. Ex. Orn. p. 190.
Description.—Above dark brown, with blackish mottlings; wings grey, inner secondaries and under wing-coverts white: beneath pale whitish cinereous, chin and throat pure white; neck in front brownish; bill plumbeous, at base yellowish; feet black: whole length 10·0 inches, wing 4·0, tail 1·0. Female similar, but not so bright.
Hab. Central and South America.
This representative of the well-known “Dabchick” of Europe is found throughout South and Central America. In the Argentine Republic, near Buenos Ayres, it is “resident and common in the lagoons and arroyos” (Durnford, l. s. c.), and likewise in the Territory of Chupat.
[423.] PODILYMBUS PODICEPS (Linn.).
(THICK-BILLED GREBE.)
Podilymbus podiceps, Baird, Brew., et Ridgw. Water-B. N. A. ii. p. 440; Withington, Ibis, 1888, p. 473.