2IO THE BIRDS OF BERKS AND BUCKS. 



Eared Grebe {Podiceps auritus). The rarest of 

 the five species of Grebes found in Great Britain. It 

 is an inhabitant of the northern and eastern parts 

 of Europe, and has been found breeding so far south 

 as Algeria. It resembles the Sclavonian Grebe in 

 its habits, and lays three or four eggs of a dull 

 yellowish or greenish white, one inch and nine lines 

 in length, and one inch three lines in breadth. The 

 Eared Grebe has occasionally visited the extensive 

 reservoirs in the neighbourhood of Drayton Beau- 

 champ, and has been known to nest there, Mr. 

 Williams, of Tring Park, having taken the nest and 

 eggs a few years since. It generally visits these pieces 

 of water during the early spring months. In the 

 winter of 1861 a man named Allen shot an Eared 

 Grebe as it was swimming on the Thames opposite 

 Boveney Locks. 



Great Northern Diver {Colymhus glacialis). 

 The Rev. F. O. Morris observes that some of these 

 fine Divers were killed near Pangbourne and Maiden- 

 head, both in Berkshire, in 1794, but he has omitted 

 to note the season of the year. In the year 18 10, on^ 

 was shot near Newbury, as recorded in Morris's 

 ' British Birds.' 



A young one was discovered at Chequers Court, 

 near Risborough, Bucks, upon the 9th of May, 

 1850. Upon writing for further particulars to Lady 

 Frankland Russell, she very kindly supplied the 

 following note : — ' The occurrence of the Northern 



