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GREAT GUESTED GREBE. 



TIPPET GEEBE. CARGOOSE. LOON. 



Colymbus cristatus, 



Fodiceps cristatus, PENNANT. MONTAGU. 



Colymbus A. Diver. Cristatus Crested. 



THE Great Crested Grebe is very plentiful in Holland and 

 Germany, and belongs also to Iceland, Sweden and Norway, 

 Italy, France, and Russia. In Asia it has been observed about 

 the Caucasus and in Siberia, Asia Minor, and Japan. Also in 

 Africa, both north and south. It belongs likewise to North 

 America, advancing southwards from the Fur Countries, as far 

 as Mexico, through the States. 



This singular-looking bird is indigenous in many parts of 

 the country, videlicet, in Lincolnshire, Norfolk, Shropshire, and 

 Wales. Its occurrence has been noticed in Cumberland. In 

 Yorkshire, one was procured near Doncaster, the beginning ot 

 1837. They are sometimes obtained in Oxfordshire, in the 

 neighbourhood of Weston-on-the-Green. One in Berkshire, near 

 Hungerford, in February, 1808. In Hampshire, one was seen 

 on the Southampton Water, the end of March, 1849. In 

 Surrey one, a young bird, was captured near Reigate, on the 

 28th. of February, 1849. An adult male was shot in the month 

 of June, on the Lincolnshire fens, Mr. William Felkin, Junior, 

 of Carrington, near Nottingham, has informed me. It has 

 occurred also on Croxby Lake. In Sussex, three near Battel, 

 one of them the beginning of March, 1848. In Northampton- 

 shire, one was shot on the 27th. of January, 1855, on the 

 River Nene, as I am informed by the Hon. T. L. Powys; 

 he adds, that it has also occurred at Blather wy eke Park, the 

 seat of Augustus Stafford, Esq., M.P. In Norfolk four were 



