DUSKY GREBE. 



SCLAYONIAN CREBR. HORNED OREI5F. 

 HOKXKO DABCHICK. BLACK AND WHITE DABCINCK 



Colymbus obscurus, GMELIN. 



*' Caspicus, GMELIN. 



" cornutus, GMEUIX. 



Podiceps cornutus, LATHAM. 



" obscurus, LATHAM. 



" Caspicus, LATHAM. 



A Diver. Cornutus Horned. Cornu A horn 



THIS Grebe is found in Europe in Iceland, and occurs in 

 France, Germany, Holland, Switzerland, and Italy. In Sweden 

 it breeds, as also in Sclavonia, whence one of its names. In 

 America it ranges from Hudson's Bay and the Fur Countries, 

 Canada, and the United States, to Florida, and is a generally 

 distributed species. It is found likewise in the northern parts 

 of Asia, and about the Caspian Sea. 



The places that it frequents are both the sea-coast and 

 its inlets, lakes, and large ponds. 



A fine immature specimen of the Sclavonian Grebe was 

 found on the 22nd. of October, 1853, in a disabled state 

 by the side of the railway near Stockton-on-Tees, having 

 evidently flown against the telegraph wires, as many other 

 birds have at different times done, the result being a fatal 

 'shock to the system,' the 'electric wire' being at one and 

 the same time a 'conductor' thereof, and a 'non-conductor' to 

 them. 



One of these birds, of which W. Brooks Gates, Esq. has 



fiveri me an account, was taken in the parish of Weston 

 'avell, near Northampton, in January, 1855. Another, a 



