GREAT CRESTED GREBE. 



PODICEPS CRISTATUS {Linn.). 



Colymbus cristatus, Linn. S. N. i. p. 222 (1766) ; Naum. ix. 

 p. 686. 



Podiceps cristatus, Macg. v. p. 250; Yarr. ed. 4, iv. p. 117; 

 Dresser, viii. p. 629. 



Grebe huppe", French ; Grosser Lappentaucher, German ; 

 Somormujo, Zambullidor, Spanish. 



Notwithstanding the persecution to which this remark- 

 ably beautiful species was formerly, and still is to a 

 certain extent, subjected, to satisfy the fancy of ladies 

 for its breast-feathers for their personal adornment, I 

 am glad to be able to state, from authentic private 

 information, that of late years it has appeared and 

 breeds in several localities in England where it was 

 previously almost unknown, and that in more than one 

 of these localities it is jealously protected by the pro- 

 prietors. My own first personal acquaintance with this 

 Grebe was formed on our Northamptonshire river, the 

 Nene, in my early shooting-days, when nothing that 

 flew or dived was sacred for me ; but it is now a source 

 of no slight gratification to me to reflect that both ex- 

 amples of this locally rare species, that I schemed for days 



