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Soc.," iii., p. 260), but in neither instance is the precise 

 date given. Graves, in his " British Ornithology," states, 

 " We have observed it [the ' Beared grebe"] on some of the 

 extensive broads near Yarmouth, in April, and received 

 a fine living specimen, which was caught in a net in the 

 river Yare in May, 1820." Messrs. Gurney and Fisher, 

 writing in 1846 (Zool. 1381), observe, "In the month of 

 April last [1845] no less than five specimens of the 

 eared grebe [one of which, in full breeding dress, is now 

 in the collection at Northrepps Hall] were killed within 

 a week at Wroxham and other places in the county, and 

 it is somewhat remarkable that these have all proved 

 upon dissection to be male birds." 



"On the 8th December, 1846," Mr. Dowell says, " I 

 killed an eared grebe at Stiffkey Freshes in winter 

 plumage ; I take it to be an old bird. The same day I 

 wounded another grebe near the same place, but left it, 

 supposing it to be a Sclavonian grebe, to chase a little 

 auk." 



From this time to the year 1862, Mr Stevenson 

 has the following notes : " A fine specimen, in full 

 breeding plumage, was shot at Sutton, in April, 1849, 

 and in the c Zoologist ' for 1851 (pp. 3116 and 

 3175) I find two notices of eared grebes from the 

 neighbourhood of Yarmouth, being purchased in the 

 London markets. The first, killed on the 14th April, 

 was sent to London with some great crested grebes, 

 and passed into the hands of Mr. Richard Strangways, 

 whose account of the uses to which their skins were 

 applied I have already quoted (p. 234). A fine male and 

 female shot on the 17th were also purchased by Mr. 

 J. Green, ' naturalist,' of the City Koad. The latter 

 individual also received another pair, in the following 

 May, 1852, from the same locality, and the females in 

 both instances contained eggs about the size of small 

 marbles. One killed at Blakeney, on March 9th, 1853, 

 passed into Lord Leicester's collection, and Mr. New- 

 come possesses one killed by himself on the 9th of May 

 in the same year, in Hockwold Fen, which also exhibited 

 the full summer plumage. In 1854, about the 18th 

 May, a very beautiful specimen was killed at Filby, which 

 is now in the collection of the Rev. C. Lucas. 



