PYGOPODES, ( 315 ) PODICIPEDID^. 



THE RED-NECKED GREBE. 



GREY-CHEEKED GREBE. 



Podiceps griseigena. 



Now up, norm downe againe, that hard it is to prove, 

 Wfiether under water most it liveth, or above. 



Drayton. 



The Red-necked Grebe is sometimes seen on the coast of 

 Berwickshire during the winter months, and occasionally in 

 the inland parts of the county, generally in severe weather. 

 Mr. Hardy mentions that a specimen which was shot at the 

 Harbour Pier, Coldingham Shore, on the 10 th of December, 

 1875, in winter plumage, was added to Mr. "Wilson's collec- 

 tion ; ^ and Mr. Gray records that a beautifully marked bird 

 was killed at Coldingham on the 14th of February 1879.^ 

 Mr. J. Logan Mack, Coveyheugh House, has informed me that 

 Mr. Andrew Caverhill, Crichness, sent to him a Red-necked 

 Grebe on the 2nd of February 1881, which was killed on 

 the Lammermuirs during a snowstorm by a shepherd, who 

 knocked it down with a stick. Mr. Compton-Lundie of 

 Spital kindly presented to me a fine specimen of a male in 

 immature plumage, which was shot on the Whitadder at 

 Clarabad mill cauld on the 2nd of February 1888. 



This species is considerably less than the Great Crested 

 Grebe, while, like that bird, it dives with great facility. It 

 feeds on fish and aquatic insects. 



1 Hist. Ber. Nat, aub, vol. vii. p. 517. ^ Jbid. vol. viii. p. 502. 



