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weeks, but single birds occasionally linger into 

 early summer. Thus, a bird in full breeding plum- 

 age was shot on the Solway, near Bowness, on the 

 30th of May, 1885. Dr. Heysham records a Red- 

 throated Diver captured in summer near Crossfell, 

 and " carried about as long as it lived as a shew." 

 Our only modern note of this species occurring 

 inland refers to the same district as Heysham's 

 bird, an adult having been shot near Alston in 

 1842, in the month of December. Two adults 

 shot on the Solway in 1884, at the beginning of 

 November, proved to be deep in the moult, their 

 wing quills being almost rudimentary. 



Family PODICIPID^. 

 Genus PODICEPS. 



P. Cristatus. Great Crested Grebe. 



The Great Crested Grebe is a casual visitant, of 

 intermittent occurrence on our lakes and rivers, 

 chiefly in autumn and winter. Se.veral examples 

 have been obtained in the lake district. In summer, 

 its presence with us is accidental ; but an adult, in 

 breeding plumage, was shot on the Eden, near 

 Carlisle, on July 19th, 1869, and a male, in which 

 the assumption of breeding plumage is far advanced, 

 was shot on the Eden, at Cargo, on March 4th, 

 1884. 



P. Griseigena. Ped-necked Grebe. 



The Ped-necked Grebe is a rare casual visitant, 

 but has occurred in a very few instances in the 



