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in immature plumage, and, more rarely, according to Mr. 

 Rodd, in their nuptial dress, have several times been ob- 

 tained in Cornwall ; and Mr. Cecil Smith kept one alive for 

 some time which had been taken in Somersetshire. Another 

 bird in breeding plumage, shot by Lord Clifton in the Port- 

 land Roads, Dorsetshire, on the 8th of April, 1876, is in 

 the collection of Lord Lilford : and specimens have been 

 obtained in other localities along our southern coast. The 

 bird figured by Edwards (Nat. Hist. Birds, plate 96, 

 figure 2), was taken in a pond at Hampstead, near London, 

 and was sent alive to Sir Hans Sloane ; Mr. Bond gave 

 the Author notice of two that were killed in 1841, on 

 the Kingsbury reservoir ; and Mr. Joseph Clarke sent an 

 account of one that was taken alive on Duxford common- 

 field, in Cambridgeshire. Several have been killed in 

 Suffolk : some of them in breeding plumage ; and in Norfolk 

 Mr. Stevenson is aware of the occurrence of at least twenty- 

 five specimens in full or nearly full summer dress, as against 

 two obtained in winter. An unusual number, some of 

 them in pairs, were secured in the spring of 1862, and one 

 of the females is said to have contained a considerable 

 number of eggs ; there is not, bowever, any evidence that 

 the Eared Grebe has ever bred in this country. Further 

 north, this species is an accidental visitant to the coasts of 

 Lincolnshire, Yorkshire, Durham, Northumberland, and the 

 eastern side of Scotland up to the Orkneys. On the western 

 side it has been taken in the Outer Hebrides ; on Loch 

 Sunart, in breeding plumage, in the spring of 1866 ; and on 

 the Nith in Dumfriesshire ; but according to Mr. R. Gray 

 it must be considered as of uncommon occurrence. Mr. 

 Kermode informs the Editor that he has a specimen shot in 

 the Isle of Man on the 22nd of September, 1879 ; but it 

 appears to be rare on the west coast of England, and in 

 Wales. In Ireland examples have been taken in Belfast 

 Bay in winter ; in Armagh and also near Dublin in the 

 month of June ; in Wexford in February ; in Cork ; and on 

 the Moy, between Mayo and Sligo, in February, 1852. 



The Eared Grebe is a rare straggler to the southern 



