- THE ZooLoGisT—FEBRUARY, 1875. 4333 
it was most amusing to see it run about the rooms, as hard as it 
could go, keeping itself perfectly erect on its legs. I never saw 
it attempt to fly, though it would sometimes flutter its wings when 
it ran, as if it intended to rise, but it never actually got off the 
the ground. I suppose it either did not get run enough to give it 
impetus, or it wanted a strong wind to rise against. It would stand, 
as it ran, very erect on its legs; but I never saw it sitting up with 
the back part of the tarsus on the ground, as grebes are so frequently 
figured as doing, and as guillemots and razorbills do. We were 
obliged to feed it almost entirely on fish, live ones for preference, 
which it would catch out of a pan of water with great dexterity. 
If a fish hid under a stone or some bits of weed in the water in the 
pan, the grebe would either turn him out of his hiding place, or 
failing that lie in wait for him to come out. It would eat a few other 
things, such as worms, while it was in the house, would occasionally 
catch and eat a black beetle, especially if it was put into its water- 
pan, but did not really care much for anything but fish. It died after 
I had had it about a week, whether from any injury it received 
when first taken, or because I could not get it fish enough, I do 
not quite know. When I skinned it, I could find very little sign 
of injury, except that some of the ribs seemed squeezed a little out 
of place. The stomach was not empty, but had a lump of pond- 
weed in it, which the bird used occasionally to swallow—I suppose 
for the sake of the insects in it. It was a male bird, in almost 
complete breeding plumage. While alive the irides were the most 
brilliant red I ever saw: in figuring the bird it would be very hard 
to give a correct idea of the brilliant colour of the eyes—to overdo 
it would be quite impossible. 
Pinkfooted Goose—On the 29th of May my pinkfooted geese 
again brought out a brood of four young ones: they laid five eggs, 
one of which was addled. In the ‘ Zoologist’ for 1873 (S.S. 3412) 
I mentioned that these same geese brought out a brood of three, 
and that one of the three had both the bill—z.e. such parts of it as 
ought to have been pink—and the legs as orange as those of the 
bean goose: this time two out of the four young have orange legs 
and beaks, whilst the other two resemble their parents, and have 
most decided pink legs and beaks. In plumage all three of the 
orange-legged birds resemble their parents. 
Kite.—In June, in consequence of a note in ‘Land and Water,’ 
stating that a swallowtailed kite had been killed at Coker Wood, 
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