to obtain, defied my youthful efforts, and never even gave 

 me the chance of a shot. 



On the Lake of Geneva, in the neighbourhood of 

 Lausanne, this species was very abundant during the 

 winter of 1850-51, and we devoted a good deal of time 

 to the method of " chasse " described with considerable 

 accuracy in ' YarrelL' I have, in years long gone by, 

 met with a good many of these Grebes during the 

 spring and summer upon certain of the " Broads " of 

 East Norfolk ; their habits in that district are most 

 graphically described by the Rev. R. Lubbock in his 

 'Fauna of Norfolk,' published in 1845 ; but it must be 

 most gratifying to all lovers of birds to know that the 

 gloomy anticipations of this author as to the then very 

 probable extinction of the " Loon " in the localities of 

 which he wrote so lovingly, have not been verified, as 

 Mr. T. Southwell, who has just brought to a successful 

 conclusion the admirable ' Birds of Norfolk ' left un- 

 finished by the late accomplished naturalist Mr. Henry 

 Stevenson, informs us that, owing to the various pro- 

 tective Acts of Parliament and the goodwill of many 

 Norfolk land- and water-owners, the Grebe is now fairly 

 numerous again in many of its favourite haunts. As 

 the habits of this bird in Norfolk have been described 

 at length in the works just mentioned, I will merely say 

 with regard to England that my experience, as far as it 

 goes, confirms the details there given in every respect. 

 I found several pairs of the Great Grebe breeding on 

 some small sheets of fresh water in Andalucia in May 

 1872, in company with many Eared Grebes (P. nigri- 

 collis), Little Grebes [P . fiuviatilis) , and two species of 



