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DABCHICK. 
DOBCHICK. LITTLE GREBE. BLACK-CHINNED GREBE. 
DIDAPPER. DUCKER. DIPPER. SMALL DOUCKER. LOON. 
Colymbus Hebridicus, GMELIN. 
Podiceps minor, PENNANT. Montacu. 
cs Hebridicus, Montacu. Bewick. 
Colymbus—A Diver. Hebridicus—Belonging to the Hebrides. 
Tats small species is common in Europe, in Switzerland, 
and is found in France, Italy, Holland, and Germany. 
It is noticed also at the Cape of Good Hope, and in 
other parts of South Africa. In Asia it appears to exist 
likewise in the same latitudes. 
The Dabchick is very generally distributed over the British 
Islands, and though more commonly seen perhaps in winter 
than in summer, appears both in the extreme north and the 
farthest south at all seasons. 
Its natural home is the water, both the open lake and the 
village pond, the gently flowing river and the still pool, the 
narrow streamlet and at times the edge of the open sea. 
In winter, when the frost has shut the door of its natural 
larder, it betakes itself to the salt water, if within reach, 
and is then to be found in bays and sea-side pools. 
In the ‘Zoologist, page 1601, J. H. Gurney and W. R. 
Fisher, Esqrs., relate that more than one specimen of the 
Little Grebe were taken about the 14th. of December, 1846, 
in the streets of Norwich; and on the 28rd., a gentleman, 
who was passing about eleven o’clock at night along the 
street, was surprised by a bird of this species suddenly 
striking against the wall near a gas-lamp, which was above 
