albis, reliquis fuscis : jugulo ferrugineo : corpore subtus albo, hypochondriis sordide feiTugineis : rostro 

 saturate corneo, ad basin et in parte apicali pallide carneo : iride rubra : pedibus nigrieanti-cinereis. 



Ad. ptil. Mem. pileo, collo postico et corpore supra fumoso-fuscis, dorsi plumis anguste schistaceo-cinereo 

 marginatis : mento, faciei lateribus, gula, et corpore subtus argenteo-albis, hypochondriis fusco-cinereo 

 lavatis. 



Adult Male in summer (Greenland) . Crown and forebead black ; lores and a broad band of featbers passing 

 througb tbe eye, and forming an elongated tuft on each side of the head, ochreous chestnut ; chin and 

 the elongated feathers forming tbe ruff brownish black ; upper parts generally brownish black, tinged 

 or marked with grey ; wings like the back, but the short secondaries almost entirely white ; entire neck 

 in front rich chestnut-red ; flanks dull chestnut ; rest of the underparts silvery white ; bill dark horn, 

 with the base and tip pink; a narrow ring surrounding the pupil of the eye white, the outer ring 

 crimson; legs dull greyish black. Total length about 13 inches, culmen l'l, wing 5 - 7, tarsus 1-8. 



Adult Female (Ural). Resembles the male; but the colours of the plumage are duller, the ruff shorter, and 

 the rufous in the plumage paler than in the male. 



Adult in winter (New Hampshire, 6th February) . Crown, hind neck, and upper parts generally deep sooty 

 brown, many of the dorsal feathers narrowly edged with slaty grey ; chin, sides of the head below the 

 eye, throat, and underparts silvery white, the flanks tinged with brownish grey. 



The Horned or Sclavonian Grebe is to be met with in much higher latitudes than the Eared 

 Grebe, with which species it has been often confused. It is not unfrequently found in Great 

 Britain during the winter months, and has been obtained here in full summer dress, but has not 

 been known to breed with us. Yarrell records its occurrence in Cornwall, Devonshire, Sussex, 

 Norfolk, Lincolnshire, Durham, Northumberland, and Glamorganshire. Mr. Mansel-Pleydell 

 says that it frequently visits the coasts of Dorsetshire in winter, being more numerous in severe 

 weather; and Mr. Stevenson writes to me as follows: — "The Sclavonian Grebe is apparently an 

 annual visitant to our Norfolk coast in autumn and winter, specimens, both adult and immature, 

 being obtained, almost every season, on Breydon or other brackish waters bordering the coast- 

 line, as well as on the various freshwater broads of that neighbourhood, and our rivers, meres, 

 and lakes more than twenty miles from the sea. From an examination of my notes for nearly 

 thirty years, I find that the birds of this species which have come under my notice in the hands 

 of our bird-stuffers have been procured, with but rare exceptions, between October and March, 

 and in numbers, as regards each of those months, in about the following proportion — October 

 one, November five, December one, January nine, February twelve, March four. The single 

 exception of one in December, in so long a period, is somewhat singular. Unlike the Eared 

 Grebe, this species seldom appears here in its breeding-plumage, these rarities occurring in April 

 and May. A fine pair, in full nuptial dress, in my possession were killed on Sutton Broad on 

 the 16th of April 1862. A young male in Mr. Gurney's collection was also shot at the same 

 time, and a fourth, though wounded, escaped into the reeds. My adult male exactly resembles 

 the bird figured by Yarrell from a specimen formerly in his possession, which was also shot on 

 one of our Norfolk broads in May 1826. A description of the Sutton specimens, which I had 

 the opportunity of dissecting at the time, will be found in the ' Zoologist' for 1862, p. 8092. Of 



