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about the harbour at Guernsey when it can find 

 any protection from the rough seas that so often 

 rage all round the Island, and which drive it to 

 seek shelter either about the harbour or some of 

 the more protected bays. I do not know that it 

 has ever bred in the Islands, but there was a very 

 fine specimen in full breeding-plumage at the late 

 Mr. Hellish 's, which I often saw there ; and, on 

 subsequent inquiry from his son, Mr. William 

 Mellish, he wrote in 1878 to me to say, " The 

 Sclavonian Grebe was killed by my brother Alfred 

 at Arnold's Pond, just the other side of the Vale 

 Church to the one on which you were." This 

 Arnold's Pond is the one I have so often mentioned 

 before as Mr. De Putron's. I have not been able 

 to ascertain the exact date at which this bird was 

 killed, but it must have been some time in the 

 spring, as it was in full breeding-plumage. There 

 is also one in full breeding-plumage in the Museum, 

 so it must occasionally stay on some time into the 

 spring. The young birds and adults in winter 

 plumage, when it is the Dusky Grebe of Bewick, 

 are very much like the Eared Grebe in the same 

 state of plumage ; but they may always be dis- 

 tinguished, the Sclavonian Grebe always being 

 rather the larger and having the bill straighter, 

 and making a more regular cone than that of the 

 Eared Grebe, which is slightly turned up. In the 



