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THE SLAVONIAN OR HORNED GREBE. 
Popicipes aurftus (Linnzus). 
The Slavonian Grebe is a northern species, and its occurrence on 
the southern and western shores of England seems to be irregular 
even in winter, although the bird is an annual visitor in small 
numbers to the coast of Wales; but on the east side it is frequently 
met with from autumn to spring, especially in Norfolk and at the 
mouth of the Humber, as well as further to the northward. In Scot- 
land it is generally distributed on both coasts, and in the Hebrides, 
Orkneys and Shetlands it is even common; but a statement that it 
nested on some fresh-water lochs near Gairloch in Ross-shire was the 
result of erroneous identification (# Ann. Scot. N. H., i. p. 172). 
This Grebe is a regular, though not an abundant, visitor to Ireland in 
autumn and winter, especially to certain bays in the north and west, 
and adults have been obtained on the spring-migration. 
It is only on migration that this species is found in the Feroes, but 
it breeds regularly in Iceland, Scandinavia and Russia, and sparsely 
in Denmark ; while in the colder months it is known throughout the 
rest of Europe, down to the Mediterranean, where, however, it is 
rare. In Asia, it ranges across Siberia to Japan, and about as far 
south as lat. 24° N. during the cold season; in America, it is common 
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