DUSKY GREBE. 
SCLAVONIAN GREDE. WORNED GREBF. 
HORNED DABCHICK. BLACK AND WHITE DABCIIICK. 
Colymbus obscurus, GMELIN, 
Caspicus, GMELIN, 
ce cornutus, GMELIN. 
Podiceps cornutus, LatTHaM, 
= obscurus, - LATHAM, 
“3 Caspicus, LATHAM. 
Colymbus—A Diver. Cornutus— Horned. Cornu—A hern 
Turis Grebe is found in Europe in Iceland, and occurs in 
France, Germany, Holland, Switzerland, and Italy. In Sweden 
it breeds, as also in Sclavonia, whence one of its names. In 
America it ranges from Hudson’s Bay and the Fur Countries, 
Canada, and the United States, to Florida, and is a generally 
distributed species. It is found likewise in the northern parts 
of Asia, and about the Caspian Sea. 
The places that it frequents are both the sea-coast and 
its inlets, lakes, and large ponds. 
A fine immature specimen of the Sclavonian Grebe was 
found on the 22nd. of October, 1858, in a disabled state 
by the side of the railway near Stockton-on-Tees, having 
evidently flown against the telegraph wires, as many other 
birds have at different times done, the result being a fatal 
‘shock to the system,’ the ‘electric wire’ being at one and 
the same time a ‘conductor’ thereof, and a ‘non-conductor’ to 
them. 
One of these birds, of which W. Brooks Gates, Esq. has 
given me an account, was taken in the parish of Weston 
Favell, near Northampton, in January, 1855. Another, a 
