156 A HAND-LIST OF BRITISH BIRDS. 



Cape Wrath (Sutherland) ; Dunnet Head and Berriedale Head 

 (Caithness) (cf. Brit. B., n, pp. 373-4, v, pp. 56, 198). Discovered 

 breeding Ireland, 1911, north Mayo coast and Ulster coast (Irish 

 Nat., 1911, pp. 149-52; cf. Brit. B., v, p. 141). Although rarely 

 coming to land, even after storms, is met with most times of year at 

 sea off east coast Great Britain and north and west coasts Ireland, 

 and in winter off south and west coasts England. 



DISTRIBUTION. Abroad. North Atlantic, generally breeding far 

 north. Replaced by allied race in north Pacific. 



DIOMEDEA MELANOPHRYS 



335. Diomedea melanophrys Temm. THE BLACK- 

 BROWED ALBATROS. 



DIOMEDEA MELANOPHRYS Temminck (ex Boie MS.), PI- Col. 450 (1828 

 Cape of Good Hope and Australia). 

 Diomedea melanophrys Boie, Saunders, p. 753. 



DISTRIBUTION. England. One. Exhausted bird picked up near 

 Linton (Cambs.), July 9, 1897 (E. A. Butler, Ibis, 1897, p. 625). 

 [A bird supposed to have been an Albatros, was seen by Mr. J. A. 

 Harvie-Brown twenty miles north-west of Orkneys, July 18, 1894 

 (Ann. S.N.H., 1895, p. 57).] 



DISTRIBUTION. Abroad. Southern Oceans, north to the seas near 

 Cape of Good Hope, occasionally straying into European waters 

 (lat. 80 11' N., long. 4 E., Fseroes). 



COLYMBUS CRISTATUS* 



336. Colymbus cristatus cristatus L. THE GREAT CRESTED 

 GREBE. 



COLYMBUS CRISTATUS Linnaeus, Syst. Xat., ed. x, i, p. 135 (1753 Europe. 

 Restricted typical locality : Sweden). 



Podiceps cristatus (Linnaeus), Yarrell, iv, p. 117 ; Podicipes cristatus 

 (Linnaeus), Saunders, p. 717. 



DISTRIBUTION. British Isles. Resident. During last twenty years 

 breeding -range has been extending. Now nests many suitable in- 

 land waters throughout England (rarely extreme south-west and 

 north) ; a few places Wales ; a good many places south Scotland, 

 north to parts of Perth and Forfar, and many places in Ireland. 



* The acceptance of Brisson's genera necessitates the restriction of the 

 name Colymbus to the Grebes. Linnaeus included in the genus Colymb us three 

 Grebes and one Diver ; Brisson restricted Colymbus to the Grebes and placed 

 the Divers in his genus Mergus ; the latter name having been preoccupied by 

 Linnaeus, the next oldest name, i.e. Gavia Forster, 1788, including Divers 

 only, must be accepted for the latter. E.H. 



