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with tliem anywhere in the interior of the country, except in 

 Scona, and in the southern provinces of Sweden, although 

 tlie whole of Northern Scandinavia abounds with lakes. The 

 character of those lakes where alone I have seen and procured 

 specimens of the Red-necked Grebe, so far north as latitude 

 66, is precisely similar to that of the broads in Norfolk and 

 the meres of Holland, where some of the Grebes arc so 

 numerous. Swedish ornithologists have confined the locality 

 of this Grebe to the southern parts of Sweden, but having 

 procured the old and young birds in August, and seen them 

 in considerable numbers two years in succession in the same 

 localities, no doubt can exist but that they are regular visit- 

 ants. The eggs I did not see, but the peasants on finding 

 a nest are in the habit of leaving one egg, and the female 

 will continue to lay, as long as one is left, until nature is 

 exhausted. These Grebes are by no means shy, and when 

 undisturbed amongst the reeds and grass, keep up an in- 

 cessant croaking. 



" They do not, like many of the divers, use their wings 

 under water, but glide through it, however, with equal swift- 

 ness, and dart through thick entangled masses of weeds and 

 grass with the ease and rapidity of a fish. From the very 

 weedy nature of the waters they invariably frequent, using 

 their wings in diving would impede their progress. I have 

 had repeated opportunities of observing them when under 

 water." 



The Red-necked Grebe is found in the eastern parts of 

 Europe, and in Germany, Holland, France, Switzerland, 

 Provence, and Italy. Messrs. Dickson and Ross sent the 

 Zoological Society specimens from Erzeroom. M. Tem- 

 n)inck says the same species is found in Japan ; it is found 

 also in North America. 



The adult bird has both mandibles of the beak black, ex- 

 cept at the base, where it is yellow ; the irides red ; top of 



