A HISTORY OF BUCKINGHAMSHIRE 



202. Great Crested Grebe. Podiceps cristatus 



(Linn.). 



As long ago as 1744 it was shot by Mr. 

 van Hatten's keeper about a mile and a half 

 from Dinton Hall. Occasionally obtained on 

 the waters of the county. It breeds in some 

 numbers on the Halton (Weston Turville) 

 reservoirs, as well as on the Tring reservoirs. 

 W. Rothschild saw a pair with young in 

 May 1901, in Stowe Park near Buckingham. 



203. Red-necked Grebe. Podiceps grhelgena 



(Boddaert). 



A ' fine specimen,' ' in winter plumage,' 

 was shot at Sanderton near Risborough, on 

 October 10, 1848. 



204. Slavonian Grebe. Podiceps auritus (Linn.). 

 One was shot by Mr. Heneage Cocks' 



gardener at Great Marlow in the ' sixties.' 

 Two were shot on Halton reservoir between 

 1874 and 1880. These were identified by 

 the Rev. H. Harpur Crewe and seen by W. 

 Rothschild in a keeper's possession, but we do 

 not know where they are at the present 

 moment. Mr. Kennedy mentions a specimen 

 killed upon the Thames at Datchet in 

 December 1867, and he heard of another 

 near Eton about the same time. 



205. Eared Grebe. 

 This bird was 

 reservoirs in 1846 

 were identified by 

 them in the hands 

 know where they 

 that it was found 



Podiceps nigricollis (Brehm). 



obtained on the Tring 

 or 1847. The specimens 



W. Rothschild, who saw 

 of a keeper, but we do not 

 are now. The statement 



breeding on Tring reser- 



voirs (Kennedy, p. 210) must be erroneous. 

 In the MS. at Dinton Hall a specimen shot 

 on November 20, 1776, is figured. 



206. Little Grebe or Dabchick. Podiceps 



fluviatilis (Tunstall). 



A very common bird, breeding on many 

 reservoirs and ponds of the county. 



207. Storm-Petrel. Procellaria pelagica, Linn. 



In 1865 an example was shot and pre- 

 served near Burnham by a man named Hebbs. 

 In October 1859, after the dreadful gale that 

 wrecked the Royal Charter, one was found 

 lying dead, but still warm, upon the road 

 opposite the Priory, Burnham. On January 

 21, 1868, one was knocked down near Wy- 

 combe (Kennedy). About the middle of 

 October 1877, one (said to belong to this 

 species) was seen flying against a mill at High 

 Wycombe, but recovered and flew away. 

 There had been strong gales the previous days 

 (D. Thurlow, Field, 1877, Oct. 20, p. 441). 

 In November 1880 a storm-petrel was 

 picked up near Wendover (Clark Kennedy, 

 Zoologist, 1881, p. 68). 



208. Leach's Fork-tailed Petrel. Oceanodroma 



leucorrhoa (Vieillot). 



After the strong gale in the summer of 

 1847 or 1848 a man named William Hibbs 

 caught a specimen at Eton. On November 

 i, 1859, during the storm that brought a 

 storm petrel to the county, a gardener of Lord 

 Chesham found a fork-tailed petrel in the park 

 at Latimer, which was examined by Mr. 

 Burgess (Clark Kennedy, p. 2 1 8). 



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