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With us in Great Britain it is a resident and tolerably common in almost every part of the 

 kingdom. Mr. Cecil Smith, however, says (B. of Guernsey, p. 169) that it breeds but rarely 

 in the Channel Islands, being usually met with in the autumn and winter in Guernsey. 

 Mr. Cordeaux remarks that it is most common in winter in the Humber district ; and 

 Mr. Hancock says the same with respect to its presence in Northumberland and Durham. In 

 Scotland, Mr. Bobert Gray says (B. of W. of Scotl. p. 409), this Grebe is "permanently resident 

 and very generally distributed throughout the country, extending also over the whole of the 

 Long Island or Outer Hebrides. Among the inner group of islands it is well known in Skye, 

 Rum, Mull, Islay, and Jura, as well in those of minor extent, embracing the islands of Gigha, 

 Colonsay, Tyree, Coll, and Iona, &c." He further adds that it frequently breeds at a great 

 elevation on the western mountains, where its nest has been taken as high as about 2000 feet 

 above the sea-level. It does not appear to breed in Shetland, where, according to Dr. Saxby, 

 a few stragglers are met with every winter. In Ireland, as in England, it is a resident, and 

 generally distributed over the island. I do not find any record of its occurrence in Iceland or 

 Greenland ; and it has only once been observed in the Fseroes, on the 24th November 1845 ; but 

 it is tolerably common in Scandinavia. Mr. Collett says that it breeds here and there through- 

 out Norway, though everywhere sparingly. It was seen in the summer in the Sigdale ; and its 

 nest was found at Mjosen. In the autumn and winter it is seen here and there on the southern 

 and western coasts, and has been obtained at Stavanger, Bergen, and in the autumn and spring 

 at Christiania. Its range in Norway does not appear to extend above 62° N. lat. Nilsson says 

 that in Sweden this Grebe is tolerably rare, but breeds here and there in the central and 

 southern districts, and is found in winter in the latter. It is extremely rare in Finland ; and 

 there does not appear to be a specimen in the Finnish collection at Helsingfors. According to 

 Dr. Palmen (Finl. Fogl. ii. p. 664), Tengstrom shot one at Kexholm ; and Aschan states that he 

 has seen both the old and young birds in the Stensundstrask, in Perma. In Bussia it has 

 been met with in the northern portions of the Riazan Government, and it occurs near Moscow. 

 In South-eastern Russia it is said to be rare ; and Eversmann only once observed it in the 

 Orenburg Government; but it is numerous in the southern governments from Pultava down- 

 wards. Mr. Sabanaeff did not meet with it in the Ural ; nor does Artzibascheff include it 

 amongst the species observed by him on the Sarpa. In Poland and the Baltic provinces the 

 Little Grebe is common, and resident in suitable localities ; and, according to Borggreve, 

 it breeds regularly in the eastern portions of North Germany, but in the west it is a partial 

 migrant, and is everywhere found only singly. In mild winters it is tolerably common in the 

 west; and Mr. Schalow says that he has seen it almost every winter in open places in the ditch 

 which surrounds the fortress of Spandau. In Denmark it arrives in April and leaves in Sep- 

 tember, a few remaining later, or even throughout the winter in mild seasons. As above stated, 

 it is a partial migrant in Western Germany ; Schlegel says that it breeds throughout Holland, 

 a few wintering there ; and in Belgium and France it is resident in the marsh districts, being 

 more numerous in the north than in the southern provinces. It is said to be tolerably common 

 in Portugal and in Spain ; and Colonel Irby writes (Orn. Str. Gibr. p. 221) : — " The Dabchick is 

 resident in Andalucia, breeding abundantly in some localities ; but it is most common (or, 

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