EAEED GKEBE 525 



AVERAGE MEASUREMENTS. 



TOTAL LENGTH... ... 13*5 in. Female smaller. 



WING 5-5 



BEAK ... ... ... 1 



TARSO-METATARSUS ... 1*75 ,, 



EGG 1-8 X 1-25 in. 



EARED GREBE. Podges nigricollis (C. L. Brehm). 



Coloured Figures. Gould, * Birds of Great Britain,' vol. v, 

 pi. 41; Dresser, 'Birds of Europe,' vol. viii, pi. 632. 

 Lilford, ' Coloured Figures,' vol. vi, pi. 51. 



Unlike the Horned Grebe, the Eared or Black-necked 

 Grebe is a southern and south-eastern breeding-species, 

 which on its vernal migration northward periodically reaches 

 our coast. It also occurs though in less numbers as an 

 autumn and a winter visitor. 



This Grebe probably frequents the south and east coasts 

 of England annually, and has been obtained in full breeding- 

 plumage ; northward, it becomes scarcer, though, according 

 to Mr. Saunders, it is fairly common on the coast of 

 Northumberland and can be traced to the Orkneys. It is 

 of regular occurrence in winter on parts of the Welsh coast, 

 north of which it is seldom recorded. 



Among recent captures may be mentioned : One shot 

 near Great Yarmouth on October 7th, 1899 (A. Patterson, 

 4 Zoologist,' 1901, p. 299) ; while a male and female sup- 

 posed to have bred or have attempted to breed, near 

 Banbury, Oxfordshire, w 7 ere secured by Mr. O. V. Aplin, 

 on September 22nd, 1899 (' Zoologist,' 1903, p. 10) ; one, 

 an adult male in nuptial dress, captured alive on a pond 

 near Lancaster on July 28th, 1904 (H. W. Robinson, 

 'Zoologist,' 1904, p. 350). 



In the West of Scotland the only authenticated occur- 

 rences appear to be those of an adult on Loch Sunart in 

 the spring of 1866, one in Skye in January, 1895, and a 

 pair shot on the Nith (Saunders). 



The Eared Grebe seldom visits Ireland. It has generally 



