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January nine, February twelve, March four, aud a pair in 

 full nuptial dress were killed on Sutton Broad on the 16th 

 of April, 1862. The finest specimen the Author ever saw 

 was purchased when fresh killed by his friend Mr. John 

 Morgan, in May, 1826, of a dealer from Yarmouth, who 

 obtained it from one of those boatmen that fish and shoot 

 on the broads in that neighbourhood, and having been pre- 

 served by Mr. Leadbeater, was given to him by Mr. Morgan 

 in July, 1827. 



On the coasts of Northumberland and Durham Mr. 

 Hancock says that it is not uncommon in winter, and he 

 has one in full summer plumage shot off Cullercoats on the 

 26th April, 1830 ; Mr. C. M. Adamson also has a similar 

 specimen shot on the 30th of April, 1860. Northwards it 

 becomes more frequent, and Mr. R. Gray says that in spring 

 it is a very conspicuous species on the western sea-lochs of 

 Scotland up to the last week of April, and a pair was shot 

 on the Loch of Killisport, Argyllshire, on the 20th of June, 

 1860, and exhibited by Dr. J. A. Smith at a meeting of the 

 Royal Physical Society of Edinburgh. It occurs in the 

 Hebrides and the Orkneys ; and Saxby says that in the 

 Shetlands it is the commonest of the Grebes, arriving in 

 October, leaving after a few days, and reappearing about 

 April, when it remains for some weeks ; the birds seen in 

 May being nearly always in pairs. 



To Ireland, according to Thompson, it is merely an occa- 

 sional winter visitant, and Mr. R. Warren informs the 

 Editor that on the west coast he has only obtained one out 

 of a pair on the 25th of October, 1878, and one on the 

 22nd of February, 1879. 



The Sclavonian Grebe breeds in the northern portions of 

 Norway, Sweden, aud Russia ; and some couples nest in 

 Denmark, where, according to Mr. Benzon, it has increased 

 in numbers of late years. The correctness of Mr. Benzon's 

 identification cannot be doubted, but it is remarkable that 

 in Thy, in Jutland, this northern species should be found 

 breeding over the same area as the next and southern 

 species, P. nigricolUs, which on the other hand seems to 



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