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and ponds, where it breeds. A great many remain all 

 the year, but during very severe weather they leave the 

 frozen lakes, and increase again in numbers in summer 

 and the breeding season. 



Mr. E. T. Filiner says they are to be found in the large 

 reed-beds near Fairfield Church, in Komney Marsh. 



Mr. T. Hepburn, in his notes on the birds on the 

 beach at Dungeness, says : May 10 to 14, 1900 : " Little 

 Grebe breeding in considerable numbers in the ditches 

 and pieces of water on the marshland. I found nests 

 with fresh eggs and eggs just hatching out on May 13." 



Family ALCID^. 



Genus ALCA, Linnaeus. 



EAZOEBILL. 



Alca torda, LimicTus. S.N., i., p. 210 (1766). 



Auk. 



The Eazorbill is an occasional winter visitor to the 

 shores and estuaries of Kent. They generally keep out 

 at sea, but are driven in during north-easterly gales. 

 Boys adds this species to his Birds of Scmchvich, 1792, 

 under the name of " Auk." 



Mr. E. J. Balston shot a solitary bird in the Med way, 

 off Okeham Ness, on December 8, 1886, and on the 18th 

 he shot one of a pair in the Thames in Sea Eeach. Mr. 

 G. Dowker obtained it at Stourmouth. It has been 

 obtained at many places along the coast. 



