lil. THE DABCHICKS. I 3 3 



for him. " I fired at the distance of thirty 

 yards : my gun went quick as lightning, but 

 the grebe went quicker, and scrambling over, 

 out of sight, came up again in a few seconds 

 perfectly unhurt." 



I think, therefore, that unless I receive 

 some better suggestion, ' Trepida Stagnarum ' 

 may be the sufficiently intelligible Latin re- 

 naming of our easil}^ startled favourite, 



IV. 

 TITANIA ARCTICA. ARCTIC FAIRY. 



III. I must first get quit of the confusion 

 of names for this bird. Linnaeus, in the Fauna 

 Suecica, p. 64, calls it * Tringa Lobata,' but 

 afterwards ' Northern Tringa ' ; and his editor, 

 Gmehn, 'Dark Tringa.' Other people agree 

 to call it a 'phalarope,' but some of them 

 'northern' phalarope, some, the 'dark' phala- 

 rope ; some, the ' ashy ' phalarope, some, the 

 ' disposed to be ashy ' phalarope ; some, the 

 ' red-necked ' phalarope ; and some, ' Mr. 

 Williams's ' phalarope ; finally, Cuvier calls it 

 a ' Lobipes,' and Mr. Gould, in English, ' red- 

 necked phalarope.' Few people are likely to 



