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Podiceps nigricoUis. Black-neckkd Grebe. 



Podiceps nigricoUis C. L. Brehm, Vog. Deutschl. 1831, 

 p. 963 : E. G-eniiany. 



Podiceps nigricoUis Brehm; B. 0. Tf. List, 1st ed. 1883, p. 204. 

 Podicipes nigricoUis Ogilvie- Grant, Oat. Birds B. M. xxvi. 1898, 

 p. 532 ; Saunders, Manual, 2nd ed. 1899, p. 723. 



NigricoUis = with a black neok, from niger and, collum. 



Distribution in the British Islands, — Chiefly a Winter 

 Visitor, but has bred regularly in Wales since 1904, and has 

 probably nested in other parts of Great Britain, particularly 

 in Norfolk, Oxfordshire, and Perthshire. It is not un- 

 common in winter in the Firth of Forth, but in most parts 

 of our Islands it is a rare and irregular visitor between 

 autumn and spring, being especially so on the north and 

 west coasts of Great Britain north of Camberland. It 

 has not been observed in the Shet;land Islands or in the 

 Outer Hebrides. For Ireland there are twenty-four records, 

 two in June. 



General Distribution. — The Black-necked Grebe breeds 

 in central and southern Europe ranging through central 

 Asia to China and Japan, and throughout the greater part 

 of Africa to the Cape. In winter it is found as far south 

 as about 22° N. latitude in Asia. It is accidental in the 

 Azores. In western North America it is represented by 

 P. n. californicus, which winters as far south as Central 

 America. 



Podiceps fluviatilis. Little Geebe. 



Colymbus fluviatilis Tunstall, Orn. Brit. 1771, p. 3 : 

 Great Britain. 



Tachybaptes fluviatilis (Tunst.) ; B. 0. U. List, 1st ed. 1883, 

 p. 204. 



