J 9* BRITISH BIRDS WITH THEIR NESTS AND EGGS. 



throat white, with two broken dark lines extending backwards from near the eye. 



The " young in down have the upper parts dark brown, striped with white 

 on the head and neck, and with pale brown on the back ; the under parts are 

 white, striped and spotted on the throat with dark brown" (Seebohra). 



An albino variety, taken at Beachy Head, is mentioned in " Yarrell," and may 

 be the example in Mr. Marshall's collection. 



Family PODICIPEDIDJL. 



SCLAVONIAN GREBE. 



Podicipes auritus (LlNN) . 



THE Sclavonian or Horned Grebe is a winter visitor, occurring from autumn 

 to spring, more commonly towards the end of winter, and occasionally 

 sufficiently late in spring to have attained its full breeding plumage, which is 

 remarkably striking and handsome. 



It is the commonest of the Grebes which visit the Shetlands, arriving 

 in very small numbers in October, and leaving after a few days ; re-appearing 

 about April, when it makes a stay of a few weeks, and sometimes remains until 

 the end of May. Dunn considered it rare in the Orkneys, where, however, 

 he saw seven or eight during his stay, in the month of April. It is met with 

 sparingly every winter in the Hebrides, and it is thought that it may possibly 

 breed in some of the outer group of the islands. To the coasts of Scotland it is 

 a regular visitor, but Booth stated that in the east of Ross-shire, and in 

 Sutherland, on both salt and fresh water lochs and firths, he met with these 

 birds repeatedly in spring (as late as the end of March and the early part of 

 April), but never noticed a single specimen in autumn or winter. In North- 

 umberland and Durham it is a not uncommon visitor, and has been procured in 



