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a gunner named West and was brought to him the same 
evening ; " This," adds Mr. Service, " is a rare species in 
Solway."* 
The " species breeds throughout Russia from Archangel 
to the Caspian and Black Seas, as far east as Turkestan, 
and westwards in the Baltic and Northern Germany to the 
South of Norway."! To the east coast of Great Britain it 
is a tolerably common winter- visit ant, being much more 
rarely met with on the west coast, while the species has 
only been obtained eleven or twelve times in Ireland. 
THE SLAVONIAN or HORNED GREBE. 
Podicipes auritus (Linnaeus). 
A rare and occasional visitor. 
Sir William Jardine stated in his list of birds of the parish of 
Applegarth and Sibbaldbie in 1832 : " The Dusky Grebe 
(C. cornutus) has been found with us once or twice " J ; and 
in 1843 he wrote : " We have frequently shot it in the 
river Annan during winter ; it never attempted to fly, but 
was not nearly so watchful as the Little Grebe, diving but 
coming up again in sight, and allowing itself to be 
approached within shot."§ 
In the Dumfries and Galloway Courier of February 20th, 
1872, we find the following record : " A specimen of the 
Red-eyed or Dusky Grebe, a very rare bird in this locaHty, 
was shot the other day by Mr. C. Waugh in the Kirk 
Loch (Lochmaben). It may be seen in the shop of William 
Hastings, taxidermist, Dumfries ; who in the whole of his 
lengthened experience can recollect of only one other speci- 
* A?in. Scot. Nat. Hist., 1904, p. 69. 
t Lloyd's Nat. Hist., 1897, Vol. IV., p. 199. 
X New Stat. Acct. Scot., Vol. IV., p. 182. 
§ Nat. Lib., 1843, Vol. XIV., p. 207. 
