BIRDS OF DUMFRIESSHIRE 461 
is increasing in numbers. It is found " over the greater part 
of the Old World, breeding in most countries of Europe and 
the Mediterranean Basin, as far north as the Baltic provinces, 
Denmark and Southern Sweden, across Siberia to Japan 
and China, and south to Austraha and New Zealand. It 
has not been recorded from any part of America."* 
THE RED-NECKED GREBE. 
Podicipes griseigena (Boddaert). 
A very rare and irregular visitor. 
Sir William Jardine in 1843 writes of the Red-necked 
Grebe : " This bird has never come under our own observa- 
tion living, "t but in the Catalogue of the Birds contained 
in the collection of Sir William Jardine (printed, it is 
believed, some four years later), there is recorded a speci- 
men shot " on the Frith by J. Hotches," which may or 
may not have been obtained on the Sol way Firth. 
In "A running Catalogue of the Contents of my 
Museum," Dr. Grierson of Thornhill records a " Red- 
throated Grebe from Maxwelton Loch (Glencairn) " ; no 
date is given, but this would be approximately about 1867. 
Another, recorded as " No. 216 from near Drumlanrig," 
Avithout further data, must have been obtained at a later 
date, but prior to 1871. I must here state that in my 
opinion, these two records of Dr. Grierson's may refer to 
the Red-throated Diver ; and this opinion is arrived at 
from the similarity of the first of the records here given, 
to that of the " Small Northern Diver " (see p. 458). 
In January, 1891, a Red-necked Grebe was killed on the 
Solway Firth near Gretna, J but details of its subsequent 
history are not forthcoming. Mr. R. Service states that 
a fine male was shot on the Nith on October 6th, 1903, by 
* Lloyd's Nat. Hist, 1897, Vol. IV., p. 196. 
t Nat. Lib., 1843, Vol. XIV., p. 204. 
X Fauna of Lakeland, p. 452. 
