BLACK-NECKED OK EAEED GREBE. 255 



mage from Hunstanton.* On the 21st August, 1888, 

 an individual, still in summer plumage, was killed at 

 Saltbouse. 



It will be seen that the eared grebe is almost entirely 

 a spring visitant to this county. Out of the thirty-three 

 specimens enumerated above three occurred in March, 

 twelve in April, ten in May, and one, to which no pre- 

 cise date is accorded, was evidently in svimmer plumage, 

 thus twenty- six out of a total of thirty -three were spring 

 birds ; August, September, and " autumn " each produced 

 one, and the only winter occurrences of which I am 

 aware were, one on the authority of Mr. Dowell, 

 killed at Stiffkey on the 8th December, 1846 ; a second, 

 reported to Mr. Stevenson as having been killed at Lynn, 

 in November, 1857 ; a third, at Hunstanton, in Novem- 

 ber, 1884 ; and a fourth example, which killed itself by 

 coming in contact with a vessel in which Mr. Booth was 

 steaming through St. Nicholas' Gat, on the 9th Novem- 

 ber, 1879. It will also be observed that since the 

 spring of 1862 this species has been met with less 

 frequently than appears to have been the case in previous 

 years. 



No instance of the nest of the black-necked grebe hav- 

 ing been found in Norfolk is on record, but the balance of 

 probability seems to favour the opinion expressed by Mr. 

 Stevenson {ante p. 254) that this species, and, perhaps the 

 Sclavonian grebe also, if not disturbed, might occasionally 

 remain to breed on our broads, which appear to be situated 

 near the northern limit of the breeding range of the one 

 species and the southern limit of the other. Most of the 

 early writers are of opinion that the " eared grebe " did 

 occasionally remain to nest, and at a time when the 

 broads were more extensive and less frequented it is not 

 at all improbable that such was the case. Hunt, speak- 

 ing of this species, says, " we have no doubt it sometimes 



* Mr. Tuck iuforms me that on a subsequent examination the 

 the bird recorded in the " Zoologist," 1885, p. 480, as an " eared 

 grebe," proved to be a Sclavonian grebe. I may also mention 

 that by a MS. note in Mr. Stevenson's copy of the "Zoologist" 

 (1868, p. 1127), two " e;ircd grebes" there recorded as killed at 

 Bacton and Reedham on 11th January, 1868, should also have been 

 Sclavonian. 



