SCLA.VONIAN GREBE 449 



EED-NECKED GEEBE. 



Podicipes griseigena (Boddaert). Tahl. des PI. 

 Eul, p. 5^ (1783). 



An occasional visitor during autumn and spring. They 

 are in winter and immature plumage, rarely found in full 

 dress. 



Mr. W. F. W. Bird records that " on February 6, 

 1849, my friend, Mr. James Moore, from his yacht, killed 

 a Red-necked Grebe in Stangate Creek, near the mouth 

 of the Medway. It was a bird of last year, and was just 

 beginning to assume the adult plumage." 



SCLAYONIAN GEEBE. 



Podicipes aur it us (Linnaeus). B.N., i., p. 222 (1766). 



This species is more usually met with in winter in 

 the estuaries of Kent than either of the former Grebes. 

 They are always in autumn or immature dress. 



Boys includes it in his Birds of Sandivich, 1792, under 

 the name of " Less Crested Grebe." 



In 1869 Mr. A. Skinner writes : " Two of these birds 

 were shot three miles from Faversham, on December 13. 

 One of these I received on the 14th ; it was an adult male, 

 in winter plumage. I was informed by the man who 

 shot them that there were several of them together." 

 Mr. G. Dowker says : " this bird was shot near Stour- 

 mouth in January, 1885 " ; and Mr. W. Prentis records 

 it from the Rainham marshes. 



On November 11, 1906, a young Podicipes auritus was 

 shot on the Medway between Gilhngham and Sheerness, 

 by Mr. H. Payne, and is now in the Maidstone Museum ; 

 another was obtained by Mr. E. J. Balston. 

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