274 EARED GREBE 
obtained on other coasts of the Irish Sea. It has been 
reported from Orkney and Shetland, but not from the 
Outer Hebrides. It is most common on the eastern coasts 
of Britain. 
PODICEPS AURITUS (Linn.). SCLAVONIAN 
GREBE. 
In the winter of 1893 a specimen of this Grebe was taken 
off Langness in a trammel net, and is now owned by 
Mr. James Brearley, of Douglas. It is in lustrous dark 
and white plumage, bearing no trace of the curious head 
adornments of the nuptial dress (Zool., 1894, p. 64). 
This is regarded as the commonest non-breeding Grebe on 
the Irish coast ; and Belfast Lough has a number of records, 
yet round the Irish Sea generally it is only scarce. It ap- 
pears on migration, in some places not uncommonly, among 
the outer Scottish islands, and has been supposed to breed. 
It is rarer on the western than on the eastern coasts of 
England. 
PODICEPS NIGRICOLLIS (C. L. Brehm). 
HEARED GREBE. 
Mr. Kermode has the only known Manx specimen, shot 
at the ‘Dog Mills’ Bride, on 22nd September 1879 (Y. L. I, 
ili. 342). This is a rather early date for the species. 
A very few specimens have been obtained in Down and 
Antrim, Galloway, Cumberland, and Lancashire. One is 
on record for Orkney, and one for South Uist. It has 
principally been obtained on the eastern and southern 
coasts of England. 
