Juv. pnecedenti similis sed capitis lateribus albo striatis et collo imo vix rufescenti lavato. 



Adult Male in summer (Lake Onega, 26th July). Crown, nape, and hind neck black, slightly glossy; chin, 

 upper throat, and cheeks ash-grey slightly bordered with white, the ruff very slightly developed ; fore 

 part and sides of the neck rich brownish red ; rest of the underparts silvery white, the flanks streaked 

 with dusky greyish ; upper parts greyish black, the margins of the feathers lighter; primaries and inner 

 secondaries blackish, the remainder of the secondaries white ; under wing-coverts white ; bill black, 

 the basal portion of the gape yellow ; iris carmine-red ; feet externally greenish black, internally dull 

 yellowish, the margins of the lobes dusky. Total length about 17 - 5 inches, culmen l - 9, gape 2*2, 

 wing 7'2, tarsus 2'2, middle toe with claw 2"6. 



Adult Female. Does not differ from the male in plumage, but is smaller in size, measuring — culmen 1*6 

 inch, gape T85, wing 6 - 8, tarsus 1-9, middle toe with claw 23. 



Adult in winter (Leadenhall Market, December). Differs from the adult in summer in having the crown, 

 nape, and upper parts greyer, the upper throat white, and the neck brownish grey, the rich red being 

 entirely wanting. 



Young (Archangel, 12th August) . Differs from the adult in winter in having the sides of the head streaked 

 with white, and the neck somewhat tinged with reddish. 



The present species inhabits the temperate portions of Northern Europe, Asia, and America, 

 ranging tolerably far north in the breeding-season, and extending down even into North Africa. 



In Great Britain this Grebe is only known as a somewhat rare straggler ; and it does not breed 

 with us, though examples are occasionally met with in full summer dress. It has been found 

 in Cornwall and the counties bordering the Channel, Essex, Norfolk, and Cambridge, and is said 

 to occur every season in the latter counties as well as in Lincolnshire. Mr. Cordeaux, in his 

 'Birds of the Humber District' (p. 179), says of it: — "Not so common as the Great Crested 

 Grebe, but occurring every winter in limited numbers along the coast, between Flamborough 

 Head and Spurn Head, also off the Lincolnshire coast. It is the most mai'ine of any of the Grebes, 

 and rarely obtained in the summer plumage ; young birds have red necks, but very different from 

 the adults. In January 1865 I obtained a female taken alive in a pond in the parish of 

 Barnoldby-le-beck. The same winter, in February, Mr. Boulton had three specimens of this 

 Grebe in the flesh, all immature females, shot in East Yorkshire." According to Mr. Hancock 

 it only appears in Northumberland and Durham in severe winters ; but he possesses an example 

 in summer dress taken alive on Cullercoats sands. 



In Scotland, Mr. Robert Gray says (B. of W. of Scotl. p. 406), " although occasionally shot 

 in the western counties in full summer plumage, the Red-necked Grebe does not breed in any 

 part of Scotland ; it leaves us in April, returning in autumn, and is sparingly distributed in the 

 winter season. So far as I can judge, it is much more common in the eastern counties. In 

 East Lothian it is frequently obtained ; and from that county northward it cannot be called 

 uncommon. Mr. Angus states that he shot a specimen in breeding-dress on the 2nd May 1867, 

 in Aberdeenshire. 



" The Red-necked Grebe is now and again obtained in the creeks in the inner group of 

 islands ; but no specimen has ever yet reached me from the Outer Hebrides. It appears to be 



