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CGLYMBIILE. 
THE GBEAT-CBESTED GLEBE. 
Crested Grebe. Tippet Grebe. 
Podicejos cristatus, Linn, (sp.) 
Colymbus „ ,, 
Is occasionally obtained, particularly in winter, on the 
sea and fresh- water lakes ; — at some of these it 
annually breeds. 
Though next to the little grebe, the most common of the 
genus, its numbers are very limited, and but few specimens are 
obtained, except during very severe winters. The following notes 
on those which have come under my inspection in the hands of 
bird-preservers in Belfast, will give some idea, at least, of the 
number killeckin the north-east of the island. The species was 
not known to Mr. Templeton as Irish. 
January 1827 — 
Jan. 2, 1831 
„ 21 , „ 
Feb. 1833 
June 1834 
April 1, 1835 
June 9, 1836 
January 7, 1838 
March 28, „ 
April 27 
Oct. 19, 1839 
March 1 840 
Aug. 26, 1840 
Dec. 14, 1841 
„ 27, „ 
April 27, 1842 
July 1844 
Summer, 1844 
One was shot on Lough Neagh. 
„ „ inland, near Comber, Down. 
,, „ in another part of the same county. 
,, „ near Lisburn, co. Antrim. 
„ „ on an artificial lake at Hillsborough Park (Down), by 
the gamekeeper. 
„ „ on a lake in the county Cavan ; — a beautiful bird, in 
adult summer plumage. 
„ „ on a pond in the district of Loughgall, co. Armagh ; — 
a fine adult male. 
„ „ on Lough Neagh. 
„ „ on Loughgall; — an adult bird. 
„ „ ,, an adult female, which, like the last, 
was in full breeding plumage. I found many eggs in it. 
„ sent to a bird-preserver, without any mention of locality. 
„ shot in Belfast Bay ; — immature. 
„ captured in a net set for fish, about the middle of Lough 
Neagh ; — adult bird, in full summer plumage. 
„ shot on Lough Neagh ; — adult male. 
,, „ in the neighbourhood of Castledawson (co. London- 
derry) — which is near Lough Neagh. 
„ „ near Banbridge, co. Down ; — a fine adult bird. 
„ „ on Lough Neagh ; — adult male. 
,, sent to a bird -preserver, without any locality being mentioned. 
