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complete summer plumage was shot in Faster week, 1860, at the 
mouth of the Tyne; this is now in the Hancock collection, 
Newcastle-on-Tyne. 
RED-NECKED GREBE (P. griseigena).—J. Hancock mentions a 
specimen in summer plumage, which was “ found alive a few 
years ago on Cullercoats sands’’ (probably about 1870) ; another 
occurred in 1891. 
[Another specimen I observed stuffed in a shop at Tynemouth, 
together with a Marsh Harrier, and which on inquiries I learnt 
had been shot off Tynemouth in about 1820.] 
Suavonian or HorneD GREBE (P. auritus). — A very rare 
spring visitant. A bird in full summer plumage was shot on 
April 26th, 1830, off Cullercoats. On April 30th, 1860, another 
was shot near Cullercoats, also in summer plumage. A mature 
male, in winter plumage, was shot at St. Mary’s Island on 
March 8th, 1894. 
Littte Grese (P. fluviatilis) —A casual visitant in winter. 
Mr. J. Wright informs me that a bird passed through his hands 
which had been shot at Holywell Dene in October, 1909. I am 
informed by Mr. Taylor that when the cobles were at the herring- 
nets in the autumn of 1909, the crews observed numbers of these 
birds which swam and dived all round. They occasionally occur 
on Whitley old reservoir in spring and summer, and breed 
there in some years. In 1910 two pairs arrived in the begin- 
ning of March, and bred among the willow-stems submerged 
in the water. They remained with their young until the 
end of September and then departed, probably for the sea- 
coast, returning on March 10th in the following year (1911). 
They dived and swam about in all parts of the reservoir, the 
respective pairs occasionally chasing each other about, flapping 
along the surface, but never rising completely off the water. 
They frequently gave their call, ‘‘ whit,” repeated several times 
very rapidly, and becoming lower in tone at the end. They 
appeared to find abundance of food, the reservoir being known to 
abound with large numbers of sticklebacks and minnows. 
Storm Petren (Procellaria pelagica).—A winter visitor of 
irregular occurrence, only observed during the prevalence of 
heavy storms, when it is driven to the coast. In his ‘ Scraps 
about Birds,’ C. M. Adamson states that: ‘‘In the end of June, 
