296 BRITISH BIRDS. [vol. xv. 



irom one Merganser's stomach, eight roach of various sizes, 

 one being nearly four inches long, and from a Goosander I 

 took two small bream. 



i\.n immature Iceland Gull {Lams leucopterus), very fat 

 and with a full stomach, was shot on the beach on February 

 i8th, and three fine Bean-Geese fell to a punt-gun on Breydon 

 on the 2 1st, while another Pink -footed Goose and Sanderling 

 on the 2(Sth, complete the list. E. C. Saunders. 



RED-BREASTED MERGANSER AND BEWICK'S 

 SWAN NEAR MANCHESTER. 



The Manchester Corporation Water Works at i\udenshaw 

 on the east, and only four miles from the centre of the City, 

 are visited by passing migrants. Among others, an adult 

 drake Red-breasted Merganser {Mergiis serrator) was there 

 from February 27th to March 2nd, 1922 ; it has been very 

 rarely seen inland in Lancashire previously. From March 

 13th to T5th a Bewick's Swan {Cygniis b. hewickii) stayed 

 on one of the reservoirs, and on one occasion I had an excellent 

 view of it as it swam close in to the surrounding wall. It 

 took one short flight while I was watching it, but, so far as 

 I could gather from the reservoir keepers, swam in the middle 

 of the water with some Mallards for the greater part of its stay. 

 This water is on]}' 17 miles from Alderley, where Mr. E. W. 

 Hendy saw six birds in November last {anfea, p. 212), and, in 

 addition, Mr. F. Stubbs records {Oldham Chronicle, March 

 i8th, 1922) others from Greenfield, just over the Yorkshire 

 border on March 5th, and mentions the occurrence of birds 

 which were probably Bewick's Swans on other reservoirs 

 round Oldham about the same time, though these last were 

 not identified as such by the observers. A. W. Boyd. 



RED-NECKED AND SLAVONIAN GREBES IN 

 HERTFORDSHIRE. 

 On February 12th, 1922. there was a Red-necked Grebe 

 {Podiceps griseigena), and on the 19th a Slavonian Grebe 

 (P. anrifns) on one of the reservoirs at Tring. The two did 

 not consort, and during their stay they held aloof from the 

 Dabchicks and Great Crested Grebes. I saw both birds 

 on several occasions up to March 9th, but failed to find the 

 Slavonian on the 12th. The Red-neck was still on the water 

 on March 19th, when the assumption of breeding dress was 

 indicated by the increasing red of its neck, whilst the yellow 

 patch at the base of the bill seemed to me to be brighter than 

 a month before ; bv the 26th the l)ird had gone. 



Ch.\s. Oi.dh.\m. 



