Young in down (Volga) . Head and neck blackish, clearly striped with white ; upper parts sooty blackish 

 with indistinct stripes along the back ; flanks and crissum sooty blackish, rest of the underparts 

 white. 



This Grebe and the Horned Grebe (the Sclavonian Grebe of many authors) have been so 

 frequently mistaken for each other that it is by no means easy to define their respective ranges. 

 The present species, however, has a much more southerly range, especially during the breeding- 

 season, than Podiceps auritus, which only breeds in the extreme north, whereas the Eared 

 Grebe nests frequently in Southern Europe and North Africa, and is met with as far east as 

 Japan. 



In Great Britain Podiceps nigricollis is a somewhat rare straggler, but has been met with 

 tolerably often in different parts of the country, usually in immature or winter dress. Edwards 

 figured one, obtained at Hampstead ; and it has been more than once killed on Kingsbury 

 reservoir. Montagu records it from Cornwall; Lord Clifton shot a fine specimen, which had 

 the ear-tufts well developed, off the Chesil bank, in the Bay of Portland, in April 1876 ; it has 

 been obtained in Dorsetshire and Sussex ( fide Yarrell) ; and Mr. Cecil Smith informs me that he 

 procured one in full plumage in Somersetshire, which he kept alive for a short time. It has 

 been recorded from Suffolk ; and I am indebted to Mr. Stevenson for the following notes on its 

 occurrence in Norfolk : — " The habits of this species in Norfolk appear to be almost exactly the 

 reverse of the Sclavonian Grebe, being frequently obtained in its summer plumage during April 

 and May, but rarely met with in its winter dress ; indeed the only records of its occurrence at 

 the latter season in my notes for the last five-and-twenty years, are a single bird shot at Lynn in 

 November 1857, and a specimen seen by Mr. J. H. Gurney, jun., in Leadenhall Market on the 

 18th September 1867, which was said to have come from Norfolk. Messrs. Gurney and Fisher, 

 writing in 1846, observe, 'In the month of April last no less than five specimens of the Eared 

 Grebe were killed, within a week, at Wroxham and other places in the county ; and it is some- 

 what remarkable that these have all proved, on dissection, to be male birds.' A fine specimen 

 in full breeding-plumage was shot at Sutton in April 1849; and in the 'Zoologist' for 1851 

 (pp. 3116, 3175) I find two notices of Eared Grebes, from the neighbourhood of Yarmouth, being 

 purchased in the London markets. The first, killed on the 14th of April of that year, was sent 

 up to London with some Crested Grebes ; and a fine male and female, shot on the 17th, were 

 purchased by a London dealer, who also received another pair in May 1852 from the same 

 locality ; and the females in both instances contained eggs about the size of small marbles. On 

 the 9th of March 1853, a bird assuming its summer plumage was shot at Blakeney, and is now 

 in Lord Leicester's collection at Holkham. In 1854, about the 18th of May, a very beautiful 

 specimen was shot at either Burgh or Filby, near Yarmouth, now in the possession of the 

 Rev. C. Lucas ; and about the same time another, in the collection of the late Mr. Clough 

 Newcome, of Feltwell, was killed in Hockwold Fen. In 1861 a pair assuming summer plumage 

 was shot on the lake at Kimberley, near Wymondham, on the 30th of March ; and on the 24th 

 of April of the same year, a perfect example at Martham, and one, in half change, on Hickling 

 Broad, both localities near Yarmouth. The following summer was, however,- even more remark- 

 able for the number of these birds obtained in full summer plumage. About the 1st of May in 

 that year (1862, not 1863 as stated in Gould's ' Birds of Great Britain') a single bird was shot at 



