EARED GREBE. 



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NATATORES. 



COLYMBID^:. 



THE EARED GREBE. 



Pod 



ceps ait 



•itiis. The Eared Grebe, Penn. Brit. Zool. vol. ii. p. 135. 



,, ,, Mont. Ornith. Diet. 



,, ,, Bewick, Brit. Birds, vol. ii. p. 165. 



,, ,, Flem. Brit. An. p. 132. 



,, ,, Sei.by, Brit. Ornith. vol. ii. p. 399. 



,, ,, Jenyns, Brit. Vert. p. 253. 



,, ,, Gould, Birds of Europe, pt. i. 



Grebe oreillard, Temm. Man. d'Ornith. vol. ii. p. 725. 



Of the five species of Grebes found in the British Islands, 

 the Eared Grebe appears to be the most rare. Colonel Mon- 

 tagu mentions that during the many years he devoted at- 

 tention to ornithology he only obtained one specimen, and 



