92 ANNALS OF SCOTTISH NATURAL HISTORY 



killed in spring, and which have already begun to assume the 

 summer dress. 



SCLAVONIAN GREBE, Podicipes auritus (Linnaeus). A pretty 

 regular winter visitant, and the most common of the Grebes upon 

 the coast. A few are generally seen about the mouth of the Tweed 

 every season. I have frequently met with it here up to about the 

 middle of March, but only in winter plumage. A specimen in my 

 collection was shot on iyth February 1883, on the reservoir, at 

 New East farm, close to the boundary between England and 

 Scotland. 



I have frequently seen it during February, and March, off the 

 rocks on the coast of Berwickshire, where it may be ranked as an 

 annual visitant, in small numbers. 



EARED GREBE, Podicipes nigricollis, C. L. Brehm. A winter 

 visitant, far from being common. One was killed in the dock, by 

 a boy with a stone, at the end of February 1880 ; and on yth March 

 in the following year two specimens, which had been obtained in 

 the river, near the Old Bridge, came into my possession, one of 

 them being the bird referred to by Mr. Muirhead (vol. ii. p. 317). 

 In addition to these I have seen, and obtained, several others upon 

 the coast, chiefly in the neighbourhood of Holy Island. 



On 1 9th March 1891, I saw two of these Grebes at Holy 

 Island, one of which was still in winter plumage, while the other 

 appeared through the glass to have quite completed the change to 

 summer plumage, and is the only example in this state, which I have 

 met with in the district. 



LITTLE GREBE, Podicipes fluviatilis (Tunstall). A resident, 

 occasionally met with about the lower reaches of the Tweed, in 

 autumn and winter ; less frequent in salt water than any of the 

 family, but I have sometimes seen it off the coast at the latter 

 season. In summer it breeds in most of the larger lakes in the 

 district, and even in some of the smaller ponds, as, for instance, 

 about Scremerston, where its nest may be found in the disused 

 limestone quarries. 



TUBINARES. 



FULMAR, Fulmarus glacialis (Linnaeus). A casual visitant in 

 winter, and then generally found washed up dead upon the beach. 

 Two specimens were picked up by my brother in this way at 

 Goswick, on i5th October 1887, one of which was yet alive, though 

 in a weak and sickly condition ; and we found another near Holy 

 Island, on ist March 1888. These three birds are now in my col- 

 lection. I have a fourth specimen, which was caught on board one 

 of the Eyemouth fishing-boats, some miles off that village, and sent 

 to me alive, on 26th October 1892. Others have occurred. 



