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speak. Of recent specimens, I may notice two obtained in 

 January 1891. One of these was killed on the Solway Firth 

 near Gretna. The other was caught in miserable condition on 

 the river Eden near Little Salkeld. Another specimen was 

 felled on the Kent some few years ago by a stone from a catapult. 

 This last is the only example which I can vouch for as having 

 been killed within the territorial limits of Westmorland. It 

 was submitted to me for identification through the kind offices 

 of Mr. Hutchinson. 



SCLAVONIAN GEEBE. 



Podicipes auritus (L.). 



Dr. Gough included this small Grebe as an occasional but rare 

 winter visitant to Kendal, stating that it had been killed on 

 Whinfell Tarn [prior to 1861]. It is a scarce bird at all times 

 in Lakeland, but occurs occasionally on our estuaries, and less 

 frequently on lakes and loughs inland. Mr. Tremble has an 

 interesting adult which he shot one year on Monkhill Lough as 

 early as September. There are two specimens at Edenhall 

 which were shot on Whin's Pond. Other stragglers have been 

 killed on Derwentwater, on Ulleswater, and in the neighbour- 

 hood of Alston. Mr. Nicol never met with the Sclavonian 

 Grebe until March 17, 1889, when he shot a bird which had 

 newly commenced its spring moult in the neighbourhood of 

 Silloth. On the 24th of October 1890, the same gunner was 

 paddling up the channel past the Grune, when he saw a young 

 lad running along the side of the big creek in pursuit of two 

 Grebes which were swimming and diving up the water. The 

 lad shot one, and its fellow dived but came up directly and was 

 on the point of flying off when he fired and stopped it. Both 

 birds proved to be Sclavonian Grebes. 



EAEED GEEBE. 



Podicipes nigricollis (Brehm). 



The Eared Grebe is one of the rarest of our occasional visitants 

 — so rare in Lakeland that I have never seen a local specimen. 



