250 BIRDS OF CHESHIRE. 
SLAVONIAN GREBE. 
PODICIPES AURITUS (Linnzeus),. 
The Slavonian Grebe has only been noticed twice 
in Cheshire. Captain Congreve has a bird in his 
collection labelled ‘Burton, January 1839;’1 and Mr. 
R. Nunnerley possesses an adult in summer plumage 
which was shot by his father, then resident at Knuts- 
ford, on Tatton Mere about forty years ago. 
BLACK-NECKED GREBE. 
PODICIPES NIGRICOLLIS, C. L. Brehm. 
The Black-necked Grebe is a rare straggler to the 
Cheshire coast and estuaries. Byerley records one from 
the Mersey near Tranmere ;* and there is a specimen in 
the Grosvenor Museum, Chester, which was captured 
in a fishing-net at the same place in December 1897. 
A young male was shot in rough weather on September 
27th, 1856, on a pond at Bagillt, on the Welsh side of 
the Dee Estuary.* 
LITTLE GREBE. 
PODICIPES FLUVIATILIS (Tunstall). 
Dabchick, Diver, Little Diver, Dowker, 
Jacky Dowker, Footinarse. 
In the breeding season the Little Grebe, though no- 
where common, is widely distributed throughout the 
1 Dobie, op. cit. p. 348. 2 Byerley, op. cit. p. 22. 
3 A. O. Walker, Zoologist, ser. I. vol. xiv. p. 5321. 1856. 
