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of Banbridge, and the latter at a small lake near Ballynahinch ; 
both localities in the county of Down, where there is little doubt 
the birds were about to nidify. On the 26th of August, 1840, a 
a bird in full adult plumage was taken in a net set for fish, in 
Lough Neagh; in July 1844, an old male was shot there; and 
another on the 30th of March, 1850 — circumstances implying its 
breeding about that great lake. An old sportsman has frequently 
seen these birds when shooting and fishing there, as well as on 
other Irish lakes; — often, he remarks, after they dived, he never 
saw them come up again. ^ Prom Loughgall, county of Armagh, 
I have seen adult birds obtained on the 9th of June, 1836, on 
the 28th of March and 27th of April, 1838, and presumed they 
had a nesting place there. At Castle Dillon, in the same county, 
I am assured that a pair annually builds. f In Loughs Eagliish 
and Kilcorm, county of Monaghan, they are stated to do so an- 
nually;! and also at Glasslough.f A bird in full plumage shot 
about the 1st of April, 1835, on one of the lakes of the county 
Cavan, indicates a breeding-haunt there. Erom an old pair 
having been shot in March 1837, on the lake at Knockdrin 
Castle, Westmeath, this locality may be added to the others. 
The great-crested grebe is said to breed in some of the lakes 
of Wales, and in those of four of the English counties. || Sir 
Wm. Jardine remarks — “ Although Mr. IJeysham has recorded 
the occurrence of the bird in Cumberland, we have never been 
so fortunate as to meet with it on the border during summer. 
It may be considered, indeed, there and in Scotland, rather as a 
winter visitant, and that in no great abundance.”^" The species 
is not included in Mr. St. John's list of the birds of Sutherland, 
nor in the last-published one of those of Orkney, as appearing at 
any season of the year. If it does not breed in Scotland, this 
can hardly be owing to the northern position of the country, as 
it nidifies farther north, both in Europe and America. 
* June 1850. Since tlie above was put in type, the Rev. G. Robinson has (in the 
present month) found five nests of this grebe, each containing eggs, within a limited 
space on the borders of Lough Neagh. Molrooken is the name applied to it there. 
f Gamekeeper at Caledon, 1850. X Mr. R- Evatt, 1845. 
|| Yarrell ; — who has added one county to those named by Pennant. 
‘ Brit. Birds,’ vol. iv. p. 202. 
