250 SCLAVONIAN GREBE. EARED GREBE. LITTLE GREBE. 



[PoDiCEPS GRiSEiGENA— Red-necked Grebe.] 

 A somewhat rare visitor to Britain. 



PODICEPS AURITUS— ScLAvoNiAN Grebe. 



A specimen of this very rare bird is to be seen in the Hereford 

 Museum, labeled, "Hereford, 1849," but no further particulars 

 can be obtained about it. 



PODICEPS NIGRICOLLIS— Eared Grebe. 



The Black-necked, or Eared Grebe is the rarest of all the 

 Grebes, but it has been met with once in Herefordshire. A 

 specimen was shot on the Wye, near Stretton-Sugwas, in 1879, and 

 is now to be seen in the Hereford Museum. 



Genus—TACHYBAPTES. 



TACHYBAPTES FLUVIATILIS— Little Grebe. 



\_Podiceps fliiviatilis — YarreU?[ 



Upon this promise did he raise his chin, 

 Like a Dive-dapper peering through a wave, 

 Who being look'd on, ducks as quickly in. 



Shakespeare— Fgnws and Adonis. 



The Little Grebe, Dabchick, or Didapper, is not unfrequent 

 on the ponds and streams throughout the county, though it is 

 rarely seen except by those who look for it ; it abounds on the 

 ponds round Aymestry, It is the smallest of the Grebes, 

 and naturally a very shy bird, but admits of being easily 

 tamed. A pair of Litde Grebes was kept alive for some years 



