208 EARED GREBE. 



lars and tertials ; the secondaries white ; the cheeks, 

 throat, and neck, white, inclining to grey on the 

 latter; the remaining under parts of the brightest 

 and most unsullied silky white. 



THE EARED GREBE, PODICEPS ATJRITUS. Colym- 

 bus auritus. Linn. Grebe oreillard, Temm. Eared 

 Grebe^ or Dab-chick of British authors. Dusky 

 Grebe ? (the young). We cannot describe this bird 

 from observation, and in any state we consider 

 it as the rarest of the British species. Its habits, 

 which we presume may be somewhat similar to the 

 birds already noticed, have not been recorded by 

 any one who has seen it in a wild state, and the 

 the proper breeding localities have been scarcely 

 ascertained. A few instances of its capture in vari- 

 ous English counties are mentioned, Mr. Selby 

 stating that he has frequently met with it in North- 

 umberland during winter. In Scotland we have 

 never personally found it, but a few instances have 

 also occurred where specimens have been procured ; 

 none of these were far north, and it is not mentioned 

 by any of the ornithologists who have more lately 

 visited Orkney or Shetland. On the Continent 

 it seems to be equally unfrequent; it breeds but 

 rarely in the north, and it is probable that its range 

 may be more towards Eastern or North-eastern 

 Europe and Asia. Temminck, in his supplement, 

 says that it is rather common in the Adriatic. 



