156 A HAND -LIST OF BRITISH BIRDS. 



Cape Wrath (Sutherland) ; Dunnet Head and Berriedale Head 

 (Caithness) (c/. Brit. B., ii, pp. 373-4, v, pp. 56, 198). Discovered 

 breeding Ireland, 1911, north Mayo coast and Ulster coast {Irish 

 Nat., 1911, pp. 149-52; cf. Brit. B., v, p. 141). Although rarely 

 coming to land, even after storms, is met with most times of year at 

 sea off east coast Great Britain and north and west coasts Ireland, 

 and in ^^'inter off south and west coasts England. 



Distribution. — Abroad. — North Atlantic, generally breeding far 

 north. Replaced by allied race in north Pacific. 



DIOMEDEA MELANOPHRYS 



335. Diomedea melanophrys Temm. — THE BLACK- 

 BROWED ALBATROS. 



Diomedea melanophrys Teniniinck (ex Boie MS.), PI- Col. 456 (1828 — 

 Cape of Good Hope and Australia). 

 Diomedea melanophrys Boie, Saunders, p. 753. 



Distribution. — England. — One. Exhausted bird picked up near 

 Linton (Cambs.), July 9, 1897 (E. A. Butler, Ibis, 1897, p. 625). 

 [A bird supposed to have been an Albatros, was seen by Mr. J. A. 

 Harvie-Brown twenty miles north-west of Orkneys, July 18, 1894 

 {Ann. S.N.H., 1895, p. 57).] 



Distribution. — Abroad. — Southern Oceans, north to the seas near 

 Cape of Good Hope, occasionally straying into European waters 

 (lat. 80° ir N., long. 4° E., Feeroes). 



COLYMBUS CRISTATUS* 



336. Colymbus cristatus cristatus L.— THE GREAT CRESTED 

 GREBE. 



Colymbus cristatus Linnaeus, Syst. Nat., ed. x, i, p. 135 (1758 — Europe. 

 Restricted typical locality : Sweden). 



Podiceps cristatus (Linnaeus), Yarrell, iv, p. 117 ; Podicipes cristatus 

 (Linnaeus), Saunders, p.717. 



Distribution. — British Isles. — Resident. During last twenty years 

 breeding -range has been extending. Now nests many suitable in- 

 land waters throughout England (rarely extreme south-west and 

 north) ; a few places Wales ; a good manj^ places south Scotland, 

 north to parts of Perth and Forfar, and many places in Ireland. 



* The acceptance of Brisson's genera necessitates the restriction of the 

 name Colymbus to the Grebes. Linnaeus included in the genus Colymbus three 

 Grebes and one Diver; Brisson restricted Colymbus to the Grebes and placed 

 the Divers in his genus Mergus ; the latter name having been preoccupied by 

 Linnaeus, the next oldest name, i.e. Gavia Forster, 1788, including Divers 

 only, must be accepted for the latter. — E.H. 



