HARED GREBE 525 
AVERAGE MEASUREMENTS. 
Tors BHNGEE .- ... 138°5 im.~ Female smaller. 
WING... Bae i owe 
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ARSO-METATARSUS LNB ee 
EGe LESS 2 in 
EARED GREBE. Podicipes nigricollis (C. L. Brehm). 
Coloured Figures. — Gould, ‘ Birds of Great Britain,’ vol. vy, 
pl. 41; Dresser, ‘Birds of Europe,’ vol. viii, pl. 632. 
Lilford, ‘Coloured Figures,’ vol. vi, pl. 51. 
Unlike the Horned Grebe, the Eared or Black-necked 
Grebe is a southern and south-eastern breeding-species, 
which on its vernal migration northward periodically reaches 
our coast. It also occurs though in less numbers as an 
autumn and a winter visitor. 
This Grebe probably frequents the south and east coasts 
of England annually, and has been obtained in full breeding- 
plumage ; northward, it becomes scarcer, though, according 
to Mr. Saunders, it is fairly common on the: coast of 
Northumberland and can be traced to the Orkneys. It is 
of regular occurrence in winter on parts of the Welsh coast, 
north of which it is seldom recorded. 
Among recent captures may be mentioned :—One shot 
near Great Yarmouth on October 7th, 1899 (A. Patterson, 
‘Zoologist, 1901, p. 299); while a male and female sup- 
posed to have bred or have attempted to breed, near 
Banbury, Oxfordshire, were secured by Nir Osave ‘Aplin, 
on September 22nd, 1899 (‘ Zoologist,’ 1903, p. 10); one, 
an adult male in nuptial dress, captured alive on a pond 
near Lancaster on July 28th, 1904 (H. W. Robinson, 
‘Zoologist,’ 1904, p. 550). 
In the West of Scotland the only authenticated occur- 
rences appear to be those of an adult on Loch Sunart in 
the spring of 1866, one in Skye in January, 1895, and 
pair shot on the Nith (Saunders). 
The Eared Grebe seldom visits Ireland. It has generally 
