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as they came quite close, screaming angrily; but we were not able to get 
within one hundred and fifty or two hundred yards from where they settled 
down, and where their nests probably were, though we passed over where my 
companions said they had nests last year. There were also about one hundred 
Black- headed Gulls, which evidently had nests, but we could not get near to 
them. After some labour we got the boat into a sort of canal where the water 
was deeper and the weeds fewer, and went about a quarter of a mile, landing 
on a small island covered with high grass, and having a mound of earth about 
ten feet above the level of the mose, from which we could see over it. Here 
were more Black Terns, different birds, we thought, from those we had seen 
before, about four old Red-necked Grebes and two broods of young—one and 
two,—and one or two Coots. After remaining about a quarter of an hour, we 
rowed across to the land about a hundred yards off, and then walked along 
the north-west side. Here we counted eleven Black Terns at one time. Herr 
Regenburg picked up a cracked Grebe’s egg out of the water and gave it to 
me. The mose, Herr Winge said, could not be drained, as it is part of the 
scheme for flooding the neighbourhood of Copenhagen, in the event of 
invasion by an enemy on the land-side.”’| 
PODICIPES AURITUS (Linnzus). 
HORNED GREBE. 
§ 5062. Oue-—Iceland. From Mr. Proctor, through Mr. 
Hewitson, 1844. % 
§ 5063. One.—Myvatn, Iceland, 1846. From Mr. Henry 
Milner, 1847. 
They did not see the Eared Grebe in Iceland. The Horned was 
abundant. 
§ 5064. One.—Myskemyr, Gottland, 10 June, 1854. From 
Herr Meves, 1855. 
Given to me at the end of September by Herr Meves, Conservator 
of the Museum of the Academy of Sciences at Stockholm. He took 
it himself on a lake in the south of the island from which all the 
specimens of this Grebe in the Museum were obtained. It is Prof. 
Sundevall’s opinion that Linné’s auritus is cornutus, auctorum, and 
that Pod. arcticus is the summer dress of the same bird. 
