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RED-NECKED GREBE. 
A very large adult, in winter plumage, obtained 
off Shoreham, Sussex, by Mr. Booth, after the gales 
of January, 1881. 
See “ Rough Notes,” Vol IIT., Plate 22. 
Another specimen, in immature plumage, was 
shot off the Chain Pier, Brighton, October 3rd, 1877, 
by Mr. Harman, who has presented it to the 
Collection. 
Another, also in immature plumage, shot at 
Cley, Norfolk in 1886, by the late Mr. G. Haycock, 
Presented by Mr. A. F. Griffith. 
A fine adult male in nesting plumage, in which 
state they are very rare in Britain, was shot at Rye, 
April 10th, 1907, and brought to Bristow in the 
flesh by Mr. Kiddall, to whom it had been given 
by the man who shot it. It was presented to the 
Museum by Mr. D. Hack in 1908. Mr.M. G. Nicholl 
informs me that a second was obtained about the 
same time, probably a pair. 
WHISKERED TERN. 
Very few of these terns have wandered to these 
hospitable shores, where a warm welcome is sure 
to await them. They nest in the great morasses 
in the South-East of Europe, and round the Levant, 
along with our rare visitors the White-winged Black 
Tern (cases 248 and 251) and the much commoner 
Black Terns (cases 254, 257). Our bird is an adult 
male in its autumn dress, obtained by John Oliver, 
a market gardener at Hollington, who shot it at Rye 
Harbour, on August 10th, 1905. It was stuffed by 
Bristow of St. Leonards, who had another from Rye 
and three more from Pevensey at the same time. 
It was presented to the Museum in 1908 by 
Mr. J. Eardley Hall. 
Another, obtained about the same time, is at 
the Hastings Museum. 
Mr. M. G. Nicholl, writing of our bird, says 
that he was at Rye Harbour on the day when it was 
