RED-NECKED GREBE 273 
Mr, Adams’s hands an immature Grebe, probably a young 
bird verging on maturity, whose head and neck showed the 
peculiar longitudinal striping, while the former bore rudi- 
ments of the two crests conspicuous in this species. 
This Grebe breeds on lakes in Antrim, at Knowsley in 
Lancashire (and on many meres in Cheshire), also in Angle- 
sea, and has nested in Wigtownshire ; in winter many have 
been observed in Dundalk Bay, but at this season it is 
generally rare in our seas. It has been reported, but 
seldom, from Orkney and Shetland, It nests in many 
English and a few Scottish localities, and has occurred on 
most of our coasts in winter. 
PODICEPS GRISEIGENA (Boddert). RED- 
NECKED GREBE. 
This rare species, strange to say, is in Man the most 
frequently recorded of the larger Grebes; there are no 
Irish records during the whole period covered by ours. 
Mr, W. S. Baily has reported seeing one off Castletown, 
16th February 1889, and another at Derby haven on 17th 
April 1889 (Y. L. M, i, pt. ii. p. 83). In December 1894 
one was shot in Ramsey Bay by Mr. Hines (according to 
Mr. Kermode). In February 1895 a fine specimen, killed 
off the south of the island, came into the possession of 
Mr. W. E. Taylor, Port Erin, This bird had the grey cheeks 
and chestnut neck of full plumage. 
In October 1902 Mr. Adams received another from Derby 
haven, an immature specimen with striped head, but with 
traces of red on the neck. 
Antrim, Down, and Donegal have between them three 
recorded occurrences; nor has it been more numerously 
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