THE HORNED OK SCLAVONIAN GREBE. 187 



December, 1808. A few individuals killed in the north in winter 

 have come under my examination. One obtained in November 

 1831, in Strangford Lough, and now in the Belfast Museum, is 

 in the plumage of Bewick^s dusky grebe. On the 9th of Fe- 

 bruary, 1831, one was shot near Wliitehouse, Belfast Bay. In 

 the last week of February 1833, another, in similar plumage, 

 was shot in that bay, below Holywood, about which locality one 

 had previously been killed. In January or February 1835, two 

 were procured at the same time there. On the 0th of March 

 1835, one of these grebes was sent from Coleraine to be pre- 

 served, and came under my examinatioii in a fresh state. The 

 following notes were made upon it. — 



in. lin. 



Leugtli (total) 14 



„ of wing from carpus to end of first qidll . . .5 10 



„ „ biU above, from forehead to point . . .0 11 



„ „ ,, from rictus to point ..... 1 4 



„ „ „ „ nostrils to tip . . . . .0 7i 



„ „ tarsus ........ 1 11 



„ „ middle toe and uail ...... 2 1 



„ „ outer toe and uail ...... 2 3 



Lore red (colour of raw beef), irides vermilion-red. This bird 

 was ascertained to be a male : but not the least appearance of 

 adult summer plumage was visible on the head, though the great- 

 crested glebe often exhibits its nuptial garb as early in the season. 

 The stomach was entirely filled with feathers. On the 1st of 

 February, 1838, one of these birds was obtained in Belfast Bay, 

 near Bangor. 



The * dusky grebe ' is a very rare winter visitant to the north- 

 west of Donegal."^ Mr. Warren wrote me of four individuals 

 having been shot near Dublin at the end of February 1838; — 

 two of them, which I subsequently saw in liis own collection, were 

 in the plumage of the dusky grebe. One, scut from the county 

 of Cavan in that winter (1837-38) to Mr. Wall, bird-preserver, 

 Dublin, was the oidy individual of the species ever received by 

 him. Ill the month of January 1838, an immature bird was 



'■'' Mr. J. V. Stcvvait. 



