57 NOTES ON THE OCCURRENCE OF THE RED-NECKED GREBE, 
evidence, and that its name should be expunged from the local lists 
of Staffordshire, and I believe, from Derbyshire also. It is, there- 
fore, with very great pleasure, that I exhibit to-night, an undoubted 
local specimen of this interesting bird, and [ am sure that the 
‘“‘ Natural History Section ” of our Society, on this its opening night, 
will rejoice with me that we have thus the opportunity of reinstat- 
ing, on a firmer basis than it ever stood before, the Red-necked 
Grebe as a very rare but quite legitimate member of the avi fauna 
of the counties of Stafford and Derby. 
The specimen referred to, and which lies on the table before you, 
was shot on November 26th, 1898, by one of the keepers on the 
estate of the Marquis of Anglesey, and was brought to me in the 
flesh for identification by Mr. W. G. Williams, who very kindly 
presented it to me for my collection, It was killed in the Trent, 
near Branston, and being thus obtained on the borders of both 
counties, it will be seen that this bird fully vindicated the claims of 
its species to inclusion on both lists. 
The individual is a male in Winter dress, and is above the 
average in size, measuring, whilst in the flesh, rather more than 
17 inches in total Jength, with a wing of 6.6 inches. As the Little 
Gi ebe is only about 84-inches long, the difference in size will be at 
once apparent: 
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