198 BRITISH BIRDS WITH THEIR NESTS AND EGGS. 



the gth of May, and a fifth in equally rich plumage near Yarmouth on the 28th. 

 Since that date this species has been met with less frequently, but an example 

 still in summer plumage was shot at Salthouse, on the aist August, 1888, and 

 another is said to have been observed on Rockland Broad on the 28th July, 1892, 

 (Messrs. Gurney & Southwell's "List of Norfolk Birds"). To Essex it is an un- 

 common winter visitor. It is the rarest of the family in Sussex, making its 

 appearance at uncertain times off the coast, and on the pools and rivers ; it is 

 nearly always met with in winter, though one was shot in April. Much the 

 same may be said of Dorset, and it occasionally occurs on the coast of Hampshire. 

 It is a casual but not rare visitor in winter and spring to both north and south 

 Devon, the proportion of examples in the full adult plumage in spring being 

 larger than in any of the Grebes already described. In Cornwall it is met with 

 more frequently than the Sclavonian Grebe, but generally in immature or winter 

 plumage ; now and then one is killed in nuptial dress. On the coast it is much 

 less common and is not recorded from Somerset, nor in two recent Welsh lists. 

 Further north on the west coast we hear little of the Eared Grebe, and it very 

 rarely visits the coasts or inland waters of the north-west of England. 



To the inland counties of England the Eared Grebe occasionally, but rarely 

 wanders, and occurrences have been recorded from Nottinghamshire, Derbyshire, 

 and Oxfordshire ; in the last named county examples have been killed, years ago, 

 at the end of April and in June. In Northamptonshire, too, a pair some way 

 advanced towards full summer plumage were killed on a large reservoir in 1869. 



It is a very rare and accidental visitor to Ireland, chiefly on salt water, in 

 winter, but has occurred twice in June in nuptial plumage. One was shot 

 on the 22nd February, 1890, on Dungarvan Bay, Co. Waterford (" Zoologist," 

 1890, p. 144). 



This is a southern species, resident in the basin of the Mediterranean and 

 South Africa. Summer visitor to central Europe and south Siberia, wintering on 

 the coasts of Beluchistan and China (Seebohm). It is only an accidental visitor 

 to Norway and Sweden, but Mr. Abel Chapman states that he recognized both 

 this species and P. auritus in June, 1889, in the northern part of Jutland towards 

 Viborg, where they inhabited shallow sheets of water (" Wild Norway," p.p. 304- 

 314) ; and according to Mr. Benzon also, this species is found in north- west Jutland 

 (Yarrell). It breeds in northern Germany, and south of this in most parts of 

 Europe, becoming more common in the south. It is very abundant in Andalucia 

 (Lord Lilford). According to Col. Irby it is the most common of the Grebes in 

 the Straits of Gibraltar, breeding in lagoons and swamps on both sides. In winter 

 they are plentiful in Gibraltar Bay ("Ornithology of the Straits of Gibraltar"). In 



