PODICIPEDIDA. 719 
THE RED-NECKED GREBE. 
PODICIPES GRISE{GENA (Boddaert). 
The Red-necked Grebe is tolerably common in suitable localities 
along the eastern coast of Great Britain from autumn to spring, and 
sometimes a great influx is observed, as in 1865 and again in 1897 
in Norfolk, in January 1891 in Yorkshire, and on the coast of East 
Lothian in the early part of 1895. In the Channel this species is of 
irregular occurrence until Cornwall is reached, where, according to 
Rodd, it is not infrequent. Turning northwards, it is decidedly rare 
along the coast of Wales and on the west side of England and 
Scotland, while it is as yet unrecorded from the Outer Hebrides ; 
it has, however, been taken in the Orkneys and the Shetlands. 
In Ireland only five or six birds have been recognised, at long 
intervals, on the eastern and southern coasts. Examples in 
breeding-plumage are sometimes obtained in our islands. 
This Grebe is resident in the southern districts of Norway, and 
breeds on some of the waters of Denmark, Northern Germany and 
Holland, whence it migrates in autumn to our eastern shores. It is 
also plentiful throughout the Baltic, and as far north as the reedy 
lakes at the head of the Gulf of Bothnia; while in Russia it is 
found nesting from Archangel to the Black and Caspian Seas. 
Over the rest of Europe it is chiefly known as a migrant, passing 
along the Rhone valley, as well as by the Swiss lakes, to the 
Mediterranean; it also visits North Africa, and in Morocco 
Col. Irby has seen birds so young that they must have been reared 
