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shire *. Occasionally occurs on Croxby Pond on our 

 north wolds, but does not now breed in North 

 Lincolnshire. 



Nests annually on Hornsea Mere, in the East 

 Riding, where I have seen both the old and young 

 birds in July. Mr. Boulton has had several speci- 

 mens from that locality. 



232. PODICEPS RUBRICOLLIS (Gmelin). Red-necked 

 Grebe. 



Not so common as the last, but occurring every 

 winter in limited numbers along the coast, between 

 Flamborough Head and Spurn Point, also off the 

 Lincolnshire coast. Is the most marine of any of 

 the Grebes, and rarely obtained in the summer plu- 

 mage ; young birds have red necks, but very different 

 from the adults. In January 1865 I obtained a 

 female taken alive in a pond in the parish of 

 Barnoldby-le-beck. The same winter, in February, 

 Mr. Boulton had three specimens of this Grebe in the 

 flesh, all immature females, shot in East Yorkshire. 



233. PODICEPS CORNUTUS (Gmelin). The Scla- 



vonian Grebf. 

 Provincial. Small Diver. 

 Excepting the little Dabchick, this is by far the 



* Colonel Montagu speaks of the Crested Grebe as indigenous 

 in England, breeding in the fens of Lincolnshire and the merea 

 of Shropshire and Cheshire. It has long ceased to do so in the 



