found in the County of Suffer. . 27 
appeared tobe ‘quite {mooth, without any creft, and I fuppofe it 
was either a female or a young bird; for, on the 27th of January in 
this prefent year 1795, a bird of this fpecies was difcovered fitting 
under a hedge in the parifh of Battle, at the diftance of fix or feven 
miles from the fea: it was fo much weakened by the feverity of the 
froft; that it fuffered itfelf to be taken, and was brought to me 
alive. I kept it alive till I had made drawings and a defcription of © 
it, during which time it erected the feathers on the top. of the-head 
into two tufts, or crefts, and {welled out the white feathers beneath 
its cheeks into a kind of roff, fo as to make the head appear as if 
encircléd by a fort of hood. It was very pugnacious, ftriking fiercely 
with its fharp bill whenever I put, my hand near it, and at the fame 
time uttered a harfh fcream. According to authors this bird {pends 
its life almoft Wholly i in the Water :—is it not fingular then that it 
fhould be found on dry ground, not near any water, and at fo great 
a diftance from the fea, efpecially as its an are fo fhort and unfit 
for long flight ? 
Nov 194.—The Eared or Leffer-crefted Grebe. < Podiceps auritus, 
This bird is very rare in our neighbourhood : I have had one in 
my poffeffion, which was killed in a a fret water Dona) on he ad of 
Mey silk 
| No. I 3 5. —_The Ky atecea: yaks ofr Avofetta. 
This bird is not uncommon on our fea-coaft in fummer; but 
whether it is to be found here in winter 1 cannot tell, as I do not 
recolleét to have ever feen it at that feafon. That it breeds here I 
have been ‘an. eye-witnefs, for l remember that, feveral years ago, 
I found in the marfhes near Rye, a young one of this f{pecies, which 
appeared to have been juft hatched, and I took it up in my 
E 2 hands, 
