66 THE BIRDS OF BERKS AND BUCKS. 



and many years ago several were shot on the Thames 

 not far from Windsor. Mr. Wolley informed me that 

 in 1862 he saw a large bird, which he fancies must 

 have been a Great Crested Grebe, swimming on the 

 river near Eton. I am glad to be enabled to record 

 an instance of this Grebe's breeding in Bucking- 

 hamshire. A nest was found in May 1867, which 

 contained three eggs, upon one of the large reser- 

 voirs in the vicinity of Drayton Beauchamp, for the 

 knowledge of which I am indebted to the Rev. H. 

 Harpur Crewe, who has favoured me with many 

 ornithological notes. In a letter bearing date the 

 1 8th of December, 1867, the Rev. Charles Wolley 

 observes : ' I have been staying near Tring, and have 

 seen Mr. Crewe. We were at the large reservoirs 

 together, and saw one of the Crested Grebes swim- 

 ming about. Another was shot there in the autumn. 

 From the evidence of the water-keeper, Mr. Street, 

 which there is not the slightest cause to doubt, there 

 were three nests about the reservoirs last spring, all 

 of which Were hatched out. Both young and old 

 birds are still about.' 



The Rev. Harpur Crewe wrote me word of one of 

 these birds which he noticed on the reservoir at Mars- 

 worth, in Buckinghamshire, during the month of 

 May 1864. 



The nest and eggs of one of the pairs that bred 

 in the spring of 1867 at that piece of water, were 

 taken by Miss Williams, of Tring Park. The Rev. 



