GREBES 269 



SCLAVONIAN or HORNED GREBE. Podicipes awritus 

 (Linneeus). PI. 31, fig. 7. Length, 13-5 in. : bill, 1 in. ; 

 wing, 5"75 in. ; tarsus, 1*75 in. 



A winter visitor like the last named, but of 

 more frequent occurrence. Breeds commonly in 

 Iceland. In most parts of England it is the 

 commonest species in winter next to the Little 

 Grebe, and the same may be said of Scotland and 

 the north and north-west of Ireland. 



Weight, 12 to 13i oz. 



EARED GREBE. Podicipes nigricollis (Brehm). PI. 31, 

 figs. 8, 9. Length, 12 in.; bill, 0-9 in.; wing, 5-25 

 in. ; tarsus, 1'5 in. 



Messrs. Gurney and Fisher have noticed the 

 Eared Grebe as a very rare summer visitor, possibly 

 sometimes nesting in Norfolk. Five in summer 

 plumage were killed in April at Wroxham, one of 

 which is figured {ZooL, 1846, p. 1381) ; one on 

 Kockland Broad, July 28, 1892 ; one in Anglesey, 

 Aug. 1, 1892; another in Merionethshire, Dec. 17, 

 1891 ; one on the Arun, in Sussex, in Oct. 1892 ; 

 and another off Weymouth in December 1894. 



See the figure of the small black-chinned Grebe 

 [Colymbus hehridicus) taken in a pond on Chelsea 

 Common about June 1805, given in Sowerby's 

 "British Miscellany," part xii. tab. 70 (1806). 



An adult bird in summer plumage, shot near 

 Dublin on Jane 15, 1847, was preserved in Watter's 

 collection, and another in Co. Armagh, near Ben- 



