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GREAT CRESTED GREBE. 
TIPPET GREBE. CARGOOSE. LOON. 
Colymbus cristatus, LINNZUS. 
Podiceps cristatus, Pennant. Monraacu. 
Colymbus—A Diver. Cristatus—Crested. 
Tue Great Crested Grebe is very plentiful in Holland and 
Germany, and belongs also to Iceland, Sweden and Norway, 
Italy, France, and Russia. In Asia it has been observed about 
the Caucasus and in Siberia, Asia Minor, and Japan. Also in 
Africa, both north and south. It belongs likewise to North 
America, advancing southwards from the Fur Countries, as far 
as Mexico, through the States. 
This singular-looking bird is indigenous in many parts of 
the country, videlicet, in Lincolnshire, Norfolk, Shropshire, and 
Wales. Its occurrence has been noticed in Cumberland. In 
Yorkshire, one was procured near Doncaster, the beginning of 
1837. They are sometimes obtained in Oxfordshire, in the 
neighbourhood of Weston-on-the-Green. One in Berkshire, near 
Hungerford, in February, 1808. In Hampshire, one was seen 
on the Southampton Water, the end of March, 1849. In 
Surrey one, a young bird, was captured near Reigate, on the 
28th. of February, 1849. An adult male was shot in the month 
of June, on the Lincolnshire fens, Mr. William Felkin, Junior, 
of Carrington, near Nottingham, has informed me. It has 
occurred also on Croxby Lake. In Sussex, three near Battel, 
one of them the beginning of March, 1848. In Northampton- 
shire, one was shot on the 27th. of January, 1855, on the 
River Nene, as I am informed by the Hon. T. L. Powys; 
he adds, that it has also occurred at Blatherwycke Park, the 
seat of Augustus Stafford, Hsq., M.P. In Norfolk four were 
