272 HIUTISH BIRDS. [vol. xv. 



On February 5th and 6th, a Red-necked Grebe {P. g. 

 griseigena) was seen on the large pond adjoining the Duck 

 decoy in Hardwick Park. It showed its disapproval of close 

 inspection by a sharp scolding "chat," repeated every four 

 or five seconds. F. C. R. Jourdain. 



SLAVONIAN GREBE IN CHESHIRE. 



On P'ebruary, loth 1922, two examples of the Slavonian 

 Grebe were shot by the keeper on Mar bury Mere near Whit- 

 church, Salop, but just over the Cheshire border. According 

 to the keeper there were several more — presumably of the 

 same species — on the mere. I see no recent occurrence is 

 recorded in Coward's Fa/^wa 0/ CAesAw. H. E. Forrest. 



BLACK-NECKED GREBES IN Co. DUBLIN. 



On January 8th, 1922, I saw on the estuary at Malahide 

 a bird which I took to be a Slavonian Grebe {Podiceps auriius). 

 However, some time later I saw a pair of similar birds and 

 identified them by the slender rather up-tilted bills and the 

 markings on the sides of the face as Black-necked Grebes 

 (P. n. nigricollis) . My wife has seen them several times since 

 up to as late as Februar}^ 22nd. E.G. Hope Johnstone. 



[A sketch sent to me bears out Mr. Hope Johnstone's 

 identification . — H .F .W .] 



INLAND OCCURRENCES OF WADERS IN THE 

 AUTUMN OF 1921. 



It will be remembered that, at the suggestion of Mr. H. G. 

 Alexander, those who are in the habit of watching birds at 

 reservoirs and sewage-farms were invited (p. 160 antea) to 

 send in their records of inland occurrences of Waders during 

 the autumn of 1921. It was suggested that the effect of the 

 drought in laying bare large stretches of mud might have 

 provided more attractive halting places than usual, and that 

 at a time when many normal feeding resorts were dry, so 

 that the migrants would tend to be more concentrated 

 and observations might furnish some information as to their 

 cross-country fly -lines. Perhaps the suggestion came too 

 late for full advantage to be taken of a possible opportunity 

 of enlarging our knowledge on this point ; be this as it may, 

 the response to the invitation has proved so meagre and the 

 observations recorded are so discontinuous that no conclusions 

 can be drawn from them. 



Mr. C. Oldham reports that he has never, since he started 

 observing at the Tring Reservoirs (Herts) in 1908, seen so 



