GREBES. 



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with the red throat well developed in October, and 

 that he has sometimes shot them in this state of 

 plumage with the wing-feathers moulting to such an 

 extent that the birds were incapable of flight. This 

 shows that they must swim down the coast from 

 their northern breeding haunts, or else that, like the 

 Penguins, they moult very rapidly. 



Fam. Podicipedid^. 



GKEAT-CRESTED GREBE. Podicej^s cristafus, (L.) 



Yarrell, iv. p. 117 ; liartinrj, p. 69 ; Dresser, viii. p. 629 ; Seehohm, 

 iii. p. 455 ; Ibis List, p. 202. 



As a winter visitor the Great-Crested Grebe is not 

 uncommon in the Portland Roads and at Weymouth. 

 Mr. Pike saw " flocks " of more than twenty together 

 off the Poole coast in November 1882. After 

 Christmas they apparently go farther south, as 



