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never met with them anywhere in the interior of the 

 country, except in Scona, and in the southern provinces of 

 Sweden, although the whole of Northern Scandinavia 

 abounds with lakes. The character of those lakes, where 

 alone I have seen and procured specimens of the Red- 

 necked Grebe, so far north as latitude 66, is precisely 

 similar to that of the broads in Norfolk and the meres 

 of Holland, where some of the Grebes are so numerous. 

 Swedish ornithologists have confined the locality of this 

 Grebe to the southern parts of Sweden, but having pro- 

 cured the old and young birds in August, and seen them 

 in considerable numbers two years in succession in the 

 same localities, no doubt can exist but that they are 

 regular visitants. The eggs I did not see, but the peasants 

 on finding a nest are in the habit of leaving one egg, and 

 the female will continue to lay, as long as one is left, until 

 nature is exhausted. These Grebes are by no means 

 shy, and when undisturbed amongst the reeds and grass, 

 keep up an incessant croaking. 



" They do not, like many of the divers, use their wings, 

 under water, but glide through it, however, with equal 

 swiftness, and dart through thick entangled masses of 

 weeds and grass with the ease and rapidity of a fish. 

 From the very weedy nature of the waters they inva- 

 riably frequent, using their wings in diving would impede 

 their progress. I have had repeated opportunities of ob- 

 serving them when under water." 



The Red-necked Grebe is found in the eastern parts of 

 Europe, and in Germany, Holland, France, Switzerland, 

 Provence, and Italy. Messrs. Dickson and Ross sent the 

 Zoological Society specimens from Erzeroum. M. Tern- 

 minck says the same species is found in Japan ; it is found 

 also in North America, and in Greenland. 



The adult bird has both mandibles of the beak black, ex- 



