744 THE BIRDS OF YORKSHIRE. 



On inland streams and lakes this Grebe has often been 

 noted ; it is recorded from near Beverley ; Scampston ; Selby ; 

 Malton ; the Derwent at East Cottingwith, where in some 

 seasons it is not uncommon ; in Wensleydale on the Ure ; at 

 Thirsk ; near Waekfield, in which locality it was, for several 

 years before 1876, a regular visitor to the reservoir ; Waterton 

 mentioned it at Walton^ Park ; and it has also been reported 

 from Halifax, Fewston, Bolton Bridge in Craven, and in 

 Ribblesdale. 



The local names formerly applied to it were Horned 

 Grebe and Dusky Grebe ; in the Humber it is called Small 

 Diver. 



EARED GREBE. 

 Podicipes nigricollis (C. L. Brehm). 



Occasional visitant, of rare occurrence. 



The first published Yorkshire notice of the Eared Grebe 

 appears to have been made by J. Hogg, who remarked that 

 one was reported to have been taken at the Teesmouth in 

 January 1823 (Zool. 1845, p. 1182). 



Thomas Allis, in 1844, wrote : 



Podiceps auritus. Eared Grebe A few stray specimens have been 

 found about Huddersfield ; it is rare about Hebden Bridge ; it has 

 been obtained near York in full plumage, but is very rare ; it is occa- 

 sionally met with in immature and winter dress. A. Strickland says, 

 "It is probable that the breeding places of these two birds, cornutus 

 and auritus, are very distant from this country, as the mature birds 

 are of the rarest occurrence, at the same time the young or immature 

 bird of both these species, under the common name of Dusky Grebe, 

 is often met with in winter ; to distinguish these two species in this 

 state can only be done by minute attention to the form of the bills." 



Though it has been captured in spring and summer, when 

 in full breeding plumage, there is no evidence that the Eared 

 Grebe has ever bred in Yorkshire, and it is to be ranked as a 

 casual visitant, chiefly in winter, from the Continent of 



