110 GREAT CRESTED GREBE. 
shot near Yarmouth, on the 14th. of April, 1851; they are 
common on the Broads, and breed there: twenty-nine were 
collected in the same county, in the months of April and 
May, 1851, by Richard Strangwayes, Esq.; one at Diss Mere, 
the end of July, 1884. One of these birds, a male, was shot 
in February, 1850, at Biyth, in Northumberland. One on the 
27th. of November, 1852, near Henley-upon-Thames, in Oxford- 
shire. In Cornwall, they are not uncommon off the coast in 
winter; also in Devon. 
In Wales, Mr. Dillwyn has noticed this species in Glamor- 
ganshire. 
In Scotland, it is considered rather a rare winter visitor. 
They breed in the Hebrides. 
In Ireland, it is a perennial resident on the larger lakes, 
but is only occasionally seen. 
Their haunts are lakes, ponds, rivers, and creeks of the 
sea, if these indeed are bordered with reeds and other such 
covert. In winter frost and ice send them down to the 
mouths of rivers and the coast. 
Towards evening this species becomes active and lively, 
having previously been disposed to float about quietly, with 
the head drawn back on the plumage. 
They migrate in smail and large flocks of from seven or 
eight to fifty or more, during the night, taking advantage of 
warm weather. When ‘Gaffer Winter’ is creeping on, they 
pass to the south, and in March return in pairs to their 
intended breeding-places. 
The skin of the breast of this Grebe has become a fashionable 
substitute for fur, and several were exhibited accordingly in 
the Great Exhibition of 1851. They appear to go in small 
numbers of eight or nine in the water. One of these birds 
has been kept on the water in St. James’ Park, London. 
These birds can fly well, and to a distance of a couple of 
miles or more; but during the time that they are engaged 
with their nest, they resort exclusively to diving, in which 
they are perfect adepts, for security, raising the head only 
above water to breathe, after a stretch of a couple of hundred 
yards. They do not excel in walking or running, but swim 
admirably, and dive with remarkable quickness: they float 
low. The female, ‘if disturbed from her charge, seldom rises 
within gunshot, and if a boat be stationed to intercept her, 
will tack about and alter her course under water, without 
rising to breathe.’ 
