Rollesby, and on the 6th and 7th of the same month two pairs in full nuptial plumage were shot 

 on Horsey mere, near Yarmouth, where, from Mr. Rising's account, they had been remarked 

 at various times throughout the winter, but were mistaken for Dabchicks in their winter dress. 

 They were exceedingly tame, and, from their long sojourn on the same piece of water, would 

 probably have bred there. One of the females is said to have contained a considerable number 

 of eggs. Again, on the 30th of May, I dissected a fine male in brilliant plumage, shot a day or 

 two before at either Burgh or Ormesby, near Yarmouth ; and with this bird was another, most 

 probably a female, which, being only winged, escaped into the reeds. The stomach of the male 

 contained the remains of water-beetles and the debris of water-plants, with a mass of feathers, 

 as is so often the case with the Sclavonian, apparently from the bird's own breast, and stained 

 green with its food. A specimen in my own collection, in part change to summer plumage, was 

 killed on Breydon, near Yarmouth, on the 12th of April 1865 ; and, with the exception of the 

 one before mentioned as occurring in Leadenhall Market in December 1867, this is the last entry 

 in my note-book of this species in Norfolk." To this I may add that Mr. E. Bidwell informs 

 me that when in Ipswich a short time ago he saw an Eared Grebe in full summer dress that was 

 shot by Captain Shilling, late in August this year, on the Orwell, near Ipswich. Mr. Cordeaux 

 speaks of it as being of very rare occurrence in the Humber district ; and Mr. Hancock states 

 that it is a rare winter visitant to Durham and Northumberland, and he possesses several speci- 

 mens all either in immature, or winter dress. 



Mr. Robert Gray speaks of it (B. of W. of Scotl. p. 409) as being of uncommon occurrence 

 in Western Scotland, where it is sparingly distributed. He possesses one in full breeding-dress, 

 shot on Loch Sunart in the spring of 1866, and adds that he has known it as a visitant to the 

 coasts of East Lothian since 1846, and examined five specimens obtained near Dunbar in the 

 winter of 1864. It has been shot on the Nith, in Dumfriesshire, and is recorded by Mr. Patrick 

 Neill as occurring in Mid Lothian. Mr. J. H. Baikie killed one at Kirkwall in October 1852 ; and 

 it is found in the Outer Hebrides, as a specimen was sent to Macgillivray from North Uist. 



In Ireland it is not often seen during the winter. Thompson says (B. of Irel. hi. p. 189) 

 that one was shot in January or February 1835 in Belfast Bay, and two were killed in the same 

 locality in November 1846. Several were sent to Mr. Glennon from county Wexford in February 

 1838; and an immature example was obtained at Muskerry, county Cork, in 1847. Two have 

 been procured in full summer dress, one of which, shot near Dublin on the 15th June 1847, is in 

 the collection of Mr. Watters, and the other, which was killed early in June 1849 near Benburb, 

 Armagh, is in the possession of the Rev. George Robinson, of Tartaraghan rectory, county 

 Armagh. 



The Eared Grebe has not been met with in Greenland, Iceland, or the FEeroes, and is but 

 rare in most parts of Scandinavia. Mr. Collett only cites one instance of its occurrence in 

 Norway, viz. one shot in the fiord off Tvedestrand in the winter of 1863-64; but Nilsson says 

 that it occurs on the islands off the coast of Sweden in the Baltic as far north as Upland. In 

 Finland it is a very rare straggler ; for Dr. Palmen only knows of one pair having been killed 

 there, at Willinge, near Helsingfors, in 1853, the female of which is in the Finnish collection in 

 that town. 



In Russia the Eared Grebe is common in the central and southern districts, but becomes 



