420) PODICIPES CRISTATUS. 
[§ 5042. One.—< South Russia.” From Herr A. Heinke, of 
Kamuschin, through Dr. Giinther, 1863. ] 
[§ 5043. One——Tomston Mere, Norfolk, 19 April, 1873. 
“Birds seen. ‘Ac iN.* 
Lord Walsingham drove me from Merton to Tomston. Here we speedily 
made out a pair of Grebes at one end of the water, and a single bird at the other. 
The yvamekeeper said there was a nest last year at a place he shewed us on 
the east side, and he had seen the birds affect the same place this year. 
Thither we went by land, and, arrived at the spot, we heard a splash among 
the reeds which grow in the water, and Lord Walsingham, going to the nearest 
bit of mainland, said he saw a Coot’s nest with eggs. Before I could get to 
him he called out that he had found the Grebe’s nest and saw four eggs in it. 
When I came up to him, he waded to the nest (the water was not knee-deep) 
and I saw him uncover the nest, in which the eggs were only partly concealed, 
and take one out which be brought to me. Then we called for the boat, and 
getting into it went to the nest, from which I took another egg—the present 
specimen. The nest was of the usual Grebe-kind, perhaps fifteen inches in 
diameter, very little above the water, and consisting of a mass of wet weeds. 
Meantime I had seen the bird, which was soon after joined by its mate. 
They kept at a good distance from us, but I saw them plainly with my 
glasses, as they swam to and fro, rather uneasily, but occasionally turning 
over on one side to wash and preen their feathers, after the manner of Grebes. 
The water at Tomston, like that at Stanford, is not a natural mere, but was 
made by the late Lord Walsingham, who put up a dam, and thereby flooded 
some low-lying ground. On blowing the egg I found it to have been slightly 
incubated, perhaps for twelve hours. | 
[§ 5044. Fow.—Hickling Broad; Norfolk, April, 1877. From 
Mr. Frank Norgate. ] 
[§ 5045. Zwo.—Ranworth Broad, Norfolk, 11 April, 1884. 
«E.N.” (Different nests.) 
My brother wrote that having met Mr. Southwell and Mr. Clement Reid, of 
the Geological Survey, at Norwich, they drove together to Ranworth Broad, 
the shooting of which was let to Mr. Gurney Buxton, who strictly preserved 
the birds upon it. Arrived there they found the gamekeeper waiting for 
them. ‘We at once got into his boat and he rowed us on to the Broad... 
He said there were seven pairs of Great Crested Grebes on the Broad, and that 
he knew of two nests, one with eggs and one without... We soon made 
out a Grebe on the water about one hundred and fifty or two hundred yards 
ahead, and then two others nearer-to the north shore, and one nearer to the 
