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other examples met with in the nesting-season, I can recall only about four or five obtained in 

 this county within the last twenty years ; one of these, and the latest, was shot in the vicinity of 

 Acle, near Yarmouth, on the 27th of August 1869, which, from the date, had most likely 

 remained in that neighbourhood throughout the summer, and possibly nested there." 



Mr. Cordeaux says (B. of Humb. Distr. p. 179): — "Excepting the little Dabchick, this is 

 by far the most numerous of the Grebes visiting the Humber. It occurs in the autumn in small 

 flocks, usually in the winter or 'Dusky-Grebe' plumage, and in some years is rather numerous 

 on the river. My friend P. H. Seddon, Esq., informs me that in October 1869, when 'laid to' 

 near the mouth of the Humber, during a dense fog, he saw several of these Grebes diving in the 

 vicinity of his yacht. It has been sometimes obtained in the Norfolk broads in full breeding- 

 dress. I have never, however, met with it in this district otherwise than in winter-plumage." 

 Mr. Hancock says it is a not uncommon winter visitant to Northumberland and Durham, 

 but he only once obtained an example there in summer dress. In Scotland it is by no means 

 uncommon in the winter season, but leaves usually in April, though Mr. Eobert Gray records, 

 on the authority of Dr. J. A. Smith, the occurrence of a pair on the Loch of Killisport, Argyll- 

 shire, on the 20th June 1860. In the Shetland Isles it is said to be the commonest of Grebes. 

 In Ireland, though a not uncommon winter visitant, it is less frequently met with than in 

 England and Scotland. It has been met with in the southern portions of Greenland, but 

 usually in immature plumage. In Iceland, however, it breeds regularly. Professor Newton 

 says that it is very generally distributed on lakes throughout the western half, and probably 

 throughout the whole of the island. It arrives about the same time as the Red-throated Diver, 

 and, after breeding, leaves the island in the autumn. Mr. H. C. Miiller speaks of it as being a 

 common autumn visitant to the Faeroes ; but it does not breed there. In Scandinavia the Horned 

 Grebe is said to be somewhat rare. Mr. Collett says that it breeds regularly in the northern 

 districts of Norway, but is not common in the south, and only two instances of its occurrence in 

 the Christiania fiord are on record. Pastor Sommerfelt speaks of it as being only an accidental 

 visitant to the Varanger fiord ; but it is said to breed in Enare. 



According to Nilsson it is found throughout Sweden, but is everywhere rare. Malmlen 

 says that it breeds near Gothenberg ; and Malm and Schrader met with it in East Finmark. In 

 Finland it breeds in the interior, rarely in the south, but commonly in the northern districts ; 

 and Dr. Palmen enumerates many localities where it has been found nesting from the south of 

 Finland up to Pudasjarvi. It arrives in Finland in May, and leaves in September or October. 



In Russia the Horned Grebe is tolerably widely distributed. I have not seen it from any 

 of the collections sent from Archangel ; but it is said to occur near St. Petersburg and Moscow, 

 and Meves saw one in the Ladoga canal. Sabanaeff says that it is commoner in the Ural than 

 the Eared Grebe ; but, according to Artzibascheff, it is rare on the Sarpa. In Poland and the 

 Baltic Provinces this Grebe is tolerably rare during the two seasons of passage ; and it is stated 

 by Borggreve to be a rare visitant to North Germany during the same seasons and in the winter. 



It occurs on the coasts of Denmark in the spring and autumn, and also on the larger sheets 

 of fresh water; but only a few remain over the summer. Steenstiup found its nest in July 1834 

 on the Nors and Nebel lakes, in Thy ; and Dr. Collin obtained a pair from a little lake on Mors, 

 where it said to have bred for ten years. Mr. Benzon informs me that it appears to be more 



