RED-NECKED GREBE 519 
AVERAGE MEASUREMENTS. 
ToTAL LENGTH eae at in. Eemale smaller. 
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TARSO-METATARSUS Bey. os, 
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RED-NECKED GREBE. Podicipes griseigena (Boddaert). 
Coloured Figqures.—Gould, ‘ Birds of Great Britain,’ vol. v, pl. 
39; Dresser, ‘ Birds of Europe,’ vol. viii, pl. 630; Lilford, 
‘Coloured Figures,” vol. vi, pl. 49 ; Booth, : Rough Notes,’ 
vol. iii, pls. 21, 22. 
The Red-necked Grebe occurs as a winter-visitor along 
our coasts, and instances from inland localities are quite 
exceptional. The eastern sea-board of Great Britain is 
chiefly frequented, on the south coast of England the bird 
is of irregular occurrence, while in the west and north it is 
seldom met with, though the Orkneys and Shetlands’ have 
yielded several specimens. It would appear that it has not 
been recorded from the Hebrides. Instances of its occur- 
rence in nuptial plumage are very rare.” Occasionally this 
Grebe appears in considerable numbers; thus in Norfolk in 
1865, and 1897, in Yorkshire in 1891,? and on the coast of 
Hast Lothian, in the early part of 1895, considerable influxes 
took place (Saunders). 
A young specimen with dark facial stripes was shot on 
Blakenny Bar in Norfolk, as recorded by Mr. J. H. Gurney 
in the ‘Zoologist,’ 1901, p. 1384. Two others, not fully 
erown, were obtained in the same county on _ previous 
occasions, yet there are no grounds for believing that any of 
1 Mr. Saxby records a specimen recently taken at Balta Sound, viz. 
on Deceniher 30th, 1901 (‘ Zoologist,’ 1902, p. 113). 
* An adult male was picked up on Farthing Down in Surrey, in 1890 
in full breeding-plumage (J. A. Bucknill, ‘ Zoologist,’ 1901, p. 254) ; 
while specimens have been obtained off the Sussex coast, showing the 
beginning of red feathers (Harting). 
3 Twenty-eight specimens were taken off Scarboroug in January 
1891 (‘ Zoologist,’ 1891, p. 193). 
