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THE RED-NECKED GREBE. 



PoDiciPES GRiSEiGENA (Boddaert). 



The Red-necked Grebe is tolerably common in suitable localities 

 along the eastern coast of Great Britain from autumn to spring, 

 and examples are sometimes obtained in breeding-plumage ; but in 

 the Channel its occurrence is more irregular until we reach Corn- 

 wall, where, according to Rodd, this species is not unfrequently 

 met with. Turning northwards, it is decidedly rare along the west 

 side of England and Scotland, while as yet unrecorded from the 

 Outer Hebrides ; it has, however, been taken in the Orkneys and 

 Shetlands. In Ireland only five or six birds have been recognized 

 — at long intervals — on the eastern and southern coasts. 



This Grebe is resident in the southern districts of Norway ; and 

 it breeds abundantly on some of the waters of Denmark and 

 Northern Germany, whence, however, it migrates in autumn and 

 visits our eastern shores. It is also plentiful throughout the Baltic, 

 and as far north as the reedy lakes at the head of the Gulf of 

 Bothnia ; while in Russia it is found nesting from Archangel to the 

 Black and Caspian Seas. Over the rest of Europe it is chiefly 

 known as a migrant, ranging as far south as the INIediterranean ; yet 

 it visits North Africa, and in Morocco Col. Irby has seen birds 

 so young that they must have been reared in that country. In 

 Asia it appears to be found as far castas Turkestan, where — accord- 

 ing to Severtzoff — it meets with a larger form, distinguished by 

 some ornithologists as C. Jiolboelli ; this race inhabits Eastern 

 Siberia, the North Pacific, North America in general, and Green- 



