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behind the eye^, over the ear, the head not being frilled or 
crested. It is, in fact, a miniature Red-necked Grebe. 
Total length about 12 inches. 
335. PoDicEPS MINOR, Linn. The Little Grebe or Dab- 
chick. 
Moorish. El ghotis [Favier] . 
" This small Grebe is resident near Tangier, although to a 
great extent migratory, passing nortli during April, and 
reappearing from October to December. It is resident and 
especially numerous at the lakes of Ras-Dowra, where the, 
Arabs, during the breeding-season, in a great measure subsist 
on the eggs of various aquatic birds, destroying a prodigious 
quantity."— FG^;^er. 
The Dabchick is resident in Andalucia, breeding abun- 
dantly in some localities ; but it is most common (or, rather, 
mostly noticed) in winter ; and how they reach the isolated 
patches of water, which are dry in summer, is marvellous, as 
I never saw one on the wing like Podiceps cristatus. 
The Dabchick, in winter, is almost always to be seen 
on the inundation at the north of Gibraltar, and takes no 
notice of the numerous passers by, familiarity breeding- 
contempt. 
Total length about 9*5 inches. 
The following are the species included by Mr. Howard 
Saunders in his " List of the Birds of Southern Spain" (Ibis, 
1871, pp. 54-68, 205-225, and 384-402) which have not 
fallen within my notice near Gibraltar ; but, as will be seen, 
the greater part of them occurred some distance to the east 
of that place, far out of the district of which I have endea- 
voured to treat, and are here alluded to merely with the 
object of inviting ornithologists who may in future visit 
Andalucia to look out for these birds. 
Doiibtless many other species are to be found as stragglers ; 
and so local are birds in Southern Spain, that perhaps some 
