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of Baubridge, and the latter at a small lake near Ballyuahinch ; 

 both localities in the county of Down, where there is little doubt 

 the birds were about to nidify. On the 26th of August, 1840, a 

 a bird in full adult plumage was taken in a net set for fish, in 

 Lough Neagh; in July 1844, an old male was shot there; and 

 another on the 30th of March, 1850 — circumstances implying its 

 breeding about that great lake. An old sportsman has frequently 

 seen these birds when shooting and fishing there, as well as on 

 other Irisli lakes ; — often, he remarks, after tliey dived, he never 

 saw them come uj) again. ^ From Loughgall, county of Armagh, 

 I have seen adidt birds obtained on the 9th of June, 1836, on 

 the 28th of J^Iarch and 27th of April, 1838, and presumed they 

 had a nesting place there. At Castle DiUon, in the same county, 

 I am assured that a pair annually builds. t In Loughs Eaghish 

 and Kilcorm, county of Monaghan, they are stated to do so an- 

 nually; J and also at Glasslough.t A bird in full plumage shot 

 about the 1st of April, 1835, on one of the lakes of the county 

 Cavan, indicates a breeding-haunt there. From an old pair 

 having been shot in March 1837, on the lake at Knockdrin 

 Castle, Westmeath, this locality may be added to the others. 



The great-crested grebe is said to breed. in some of the lakes 

 of Wales, and in those of four of the English counties. || Sir 

 Wm. Jardine remarks — " Although Mr. Heysham has recorded 

 the occurrence of the bird in Cumberland, we have never been 

 so fortunate as to meet with it on the border during summer. 

 It may be considered, indeed, there and in Scotland, rather as a 

 winter visitant, and that in no great abundance."^ The species 

 is not included in Mr. St. John's list of the birds of Sutherland, 

 nor in the last-published one of those of Orkney, as appearing at 

 any season of the year. If it does not breed in Scotland, this 

 can hardly be owing to the northern position of the country, as 

 it nidifies farther north, both in Europe and America. 



* June 1850. Since the above was put ia type, the Rev. G. Robinson has (iu the 

 present month) found five nests of this grebe, each containing eggs, within a limited 

 space on the borders of Lough Neagh. Molronken is the name applied to it there. 



t Gamekeeper at Caledon, 1850. % Mr. R. Evatt, IS^.i. 



II Yarrell ; — who has added one county to those named by Pennanl. 



% ' Brit. Birds,' vol. iv. p. 20.?. 



