429) PODICIPES GRISEIGENA. 
PODICIPES GRISEIGENA (Boddaert). 
RED-NECKED GREBE. 
§ 5047. One.—From Mr.-J. Green, 1844. 
Intermediate in size between the Crested and Horned Grebe. 
§ 5048. Zhree.—Kalix, June, 1854. 
From two nests on a piece of floating ground in a lake near 
Kalix, whereabouts Mr. Daun found the Red-necked Grebe some 
years ago breeding plentifwlly [¢f. Yarrell, Brit. Birds, iii. pp. 305, 
306]. In the course of last winter I sent to the Pastor Schmaltz, 
through his daughter Hilda, a coloured drawing of the bird by 
Mr. Alfred Newton, and the following is an extract [translated] from 
one of the letters of Madame Schmaltz [to her daughter] in which 
the matter was mentioned :— 
“ Now at last I think we have made out about the eggs of the bird 
you sent for. I have sent out in all possible directions, and I think 
I have got three eggs. In one nest were two eggs, and in another 
one egg. It is said that it never has more than two young. They 
made out about the nest with much trouble, in a lake, on a little 
hillock, among bulrushes on a floating swamp, where it was almost 
impossible to reach. The boy went under the arms [7. e. the water 
came up to his arms] to get there. Now you must ask your 
Englishman | Mr. Wolley] how I shall send the eggs. According to 
directions I have blown out two, but as yet not the third for that is 
fresh. J send it not until you write ... Flora... 13 June.” 
In consequence of another letter from Mlle. Hilda, the third egg 
was also blown, and I found the three waiting for me, carefully 
packed and sealed, on the 26th of September, in the hands of 
Herr L. O. Lindbick, at Haparanda. I now (6 October) have them 
safe at Muoniovara, where I have arrived after a long and trouble- 
some journey up the river. In the box, with the three eggs, was 
also enclosed the drawing of the bird. 
Obs. At Enanger, near Hudiksvall, I saw a drawing of the bird, 
done by the clerk Herr Brunléf, among the drawings of other birds 
killed near there. 
§ 5049. Four.—Kalix, 1855. 
Received at Haparauda in September with a letter from Fru 
