116 CATALOGUE OF BIRDS. 



GREY WAGTAIL. (SUMMER.) 

 Case 132. 



It is but seldom, in the south, that this bird is met 

 with in the summer plumage ; its breeding quarters 

 being for the most part in the northern counties, and 

 in the Highlands of Scotland. 



When living in Perthshire, I used generally to 

 notice their arrival about the middle of April. 

 Though they usually frequent the stony banks of 

 rivers and rocky burns, I have noticed a few that bred 

 in the neighbourhood, regularly visiting the dust-heaps 

 and open drains that are to be met with in the centre 

 of some of the Highland towns. 



The sketch from which the case is copied was taken 

 from the bridge at Innerwick, in Glenlyon, in Perth- 

 shire, where a pair of these birds nested annually, in 

 a small hole in the masonry from which a stone had 

 been dislodged. 



The specimens, together with their nest and eggs, 

 were obtained at the identical spot, in May, 1867. 



EARED GREBE. 



Case 133. 



This species must, I should imagine, from its great 

 similarity to the Sclavonian Grebe be occasionally 

 overlooked, unless in the perfect adult dress. It is, 

 however, by no means common ; the single specimen 

 in the case (shewing the winter plumage) is the 

 only one I have ever met with. 



The bird was shot at sea, between Shoreham and 

 Lancing, on December 7th, 1879. Within a mile of 

 the same spot I observed on that day all our species 

 of British Grebes. 



