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obtained specimens, since that year, both in the estuary 

 and off Redcar. During the stormy weather of January 1891, 

 when the Red-necked species was so abundant, I noticed 

 several Great Crested Grebes, one of which was procured at 

 sea, while another was caught asleep on the sands early one 

 morning ; and on 17th January 1901, three of these birds were 

 swimming within a few yards of the shore in front of my house. 

 The examples obtained off the Cleveland coast are usually 

 in immature or winter plumage ; I have only two records of 

 specimens in the breeding dress, viz., in spring of the years 

 1882 and 1900. 



The following particulars of the bill and legs of a bird, 

 examined in January 1904, may be of interest, as these parts 

 are not usually described by authors of works on British Birds. 

 Bill, pink flesh colour, with top of upper mandible of a dark 

 horn hue, and lighter towards the point. Legs, on the outside 

 dark brownish black, other parts yellowish white, with dark 

 purple spots and blotches. 



The only vernacular name we have note of is Tippet Grebe, 

 used in the Tees (Hogg, 1845), and at Hornsea Mere. 



RED-NECKED GREBE. 

 Podicipes griseigena {Bodd.) 



Winter visitant, of uncommon occurrence, and irregular as to 

 numbers. Occasionally observed on inland waters. 



The first allusion to the Red-necked Grebe in Yorkshire 

 occurs in Fothergill's Wensleydale list of 1823, where it is 

 enumerated amongst the birds observed in that district. 



Thomas Allis, 1844, wrote : — 



Podiceps rubricollis. — Red-necked Grebe — One or two shot near 

 Doncaster every winter ; it is very rare near Barnsley ; a specimen 

 was shot on Worsborough Reservoir in 1830; many have been shot 

 or taken near Huddersfield, but they are among the rare birds of 



