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SCLAVONIAN GREBE. Podiceps auritus, L. 



Yarrell, iv. p. 128; Dresser, viii. p. 645; Ibis List, p. 203; 

 Podiceps cornutus, llartiwj, p. 69 ; SeehoJnn, iii. p. 462. 



Next to the Little Grebe, the Sclavonian Grebe is 

 the commonest of the genus, especially in salt water. 

 It is a frequent winter visitant, rarely met with late 

 enough in spring to have assumed its characteristic 

 breeding-plumage. One was caught on the ice in 

 a pond at Kimmeridge during the severe winter of 

 1841 ; another was shot at Weymouth, February 15, 

 1870; a third in Poole harbour in mature plumage 

 in March 1872; and a fourth in Studland Bay in 

 the winter of 1882. According to Mr. Pike, the 

 Sclavonian and Eared Grebes could be seen almost 

 at any time in the winter of 1882 on the shoal 

 waters of Studland Bay. 



EARED GREBE. Podiceps nigricoUis, C. L. Brelim. 



Yarrell, iv. p. 133 ; Dresser, viii. p. 651 ; Seehohm, iii. p. 465 ; 

 Ibis List, p. 204; Podiceps auritus, Harting, p. 70. 



Earer than the last-named, the Eared Grebe is a 

 winter visitant, and the rarest of the genus on our 

 coast. Yarrell says that it "has been killed in 

 Dorsetshire." One was shot by Lord Clifton in the 

 Portland Eoads, April 8, 1876, and Mr. Pike has 

 met with it in Poole harbour, where it has once or 

 twice been observed in summer plumage. 



