450 THE BIRDS OF KENT 



EAEED GEEBE. 



Podicipes nigi^icoUis (C. L. Brehm). Vog. Deutschl.^ 

 p. 963 (1831). 



This pretty Grebe is comparatively rare on the coast 

 of Kent, and being only a winter visitor it may be often 

 mistaken for the young of the Sclavonian Grebe. 



Mr. G. Dowker writes : " I met with the Eared Grebe 

 in February, 1875 ; it was caught in a duck pond near 

 the yard at North Court, Stonrmoath, and brought to me 

 alive; it was a young bird. It is in the possession of 

 Dr. Gulliver, of Canterbury." Mr. W. Prentis says : 

 " I have only known of a single pair of Eared Grebes 

 being shot in the Rainham district, both immature, in 

 the month of September, 1881. Mr. G. W. Bradshaw, 

 of Hastings, writes : " On November 14, 1896, I had 

 brought to me a male Eared Grebe shot on the sea about 

 a mile east of Dungeness, Kent. Weight 9 ounces ; 

 contents of gizzard, a little moss; eye, yellow." 



A specimen in the Maidstone Museum was obtained 

 on December 15, 1899, at Shaffleet Marsh, Kent, by Mr. 

 H. Payne. 



LITTLE GREBE. 



Podicii:)es fluviatilis (Tunstall). Orn. Brit., p. 3 



(1771). 



Dabchick. 



This small Grebe is the best known of the species in 

 Kent, especially under the name Dabchick. It is found 

 in nearly all the swampy marshes and reed-bound lakes 



