GREAT CRESTED GREBE. 
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Family — Podicipidce. 
Genus — Podiceps, 
285. Podiceps cristatus. Great Crested Grebe. 
A scarce resident in the north-east part of the county, 
occurring elsewhere, especially on the coast, in winter. 
This bird was always reckoned as a winter visitor 
to this county until about ten years ago, when two or 
three pairs were discovered nesting at Fleet Pond, where 
they may now be seen at any time in the summer, close 
to the railway, in their remarkable breeding-plumage, by 
travellers on the South- Western main line. 
Dr. P. L. Sclater, late Secretary of the Zoological 
Society, informs us that this bird also nests on Tundry 
Lake, in Dogmersfield Park, in the same part of the 
county. 
A third locality — VVolmer Pond — is mentioned by 
Mr. Aubyn Trevor-Battye, in the "Victoria History of 
Hants " I ; but the establishment of military camps in the 
vicinity and the greater traffic through this part of Wolmer 
Forest, have driven the birds away, for there are none 
to be found now on the pond. 
If the birds are protected and encouraged, as they 
ought to be, they will doubtless colonize suitable waters 
in other parts of the county. 
Among numerous records of the occurrence of this 
species in winter we select the following : — 
One shot by a gamekeeper near Blackwater Ferry 
on the Stour, in the winter of 1813-14, and now in Lord 
Malmesbury's collection. 
Vol. I., page 6. 
