THE HORNED OR SCLAVONIAN GREBE. 
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December, 1808. A few individuals killed in the north in winter 
have come under my examination. One obtained in November 
1821, in Strangford Lough, and now in the Belfast Museum, is 
in the plumage of Bewick's dusky grebe. On the 9th of Fe- 
bruary, 1831, one was shot near Wliitehouse, Belfast Bay. In 
the last week of February 1833, another, in similar plumage, 
was shot in that bay, below Holywood, about which locality one 
had previously been killed. In January or February 1835, two 
were procured at the same time there. On the 6th of March 
1835, one of these grebes was sent from Coleraine to be pre- 
served, and came under my examination in a fresh state. The 
following notes were made upon it.— 
in. 
lin. 
Length (total) ......... 
14 
0 
„ of wing from carpus to end of first quill . 
5 
10 
„ „ bill above, from forehead to point 
0 
11 
„ „ „ from rictus to point ..... 
1 
4 
„ „ „ . „ nostrils to tip 
0 
Ti- 
„ „ tarsus ........ 
1 
ll 
„ „ middle toe and nail 
2 
1 
„ „ outer toe and nail 
2 
3 
Lore red (colour of raw beef), irides vermilion-red. 
This bird 
was ascertained to be a male : but not the least appearance of 
adult summer plumage was visible on the head, though the great- 
crested glebe often exhibits its nuptial garb as early in the season. 
The stomach was entirely filled with feathers. On the 1st of 
February, 1838, one of these birds was obtained in Belfast Bay, 
near Bangor. 
The f dusky grebe 9 is a very rare winter visitant to the north- 
west of Donegal* Mr. Warren wrote me of four individuals 
having been shot near Dublin at the end of February 1838 ; — 
two of them, which I subsequently saw in his own collection, were 
in the plumage of the dusky grebe. One, sent from the county 
of Cavan in that winter (1837-38) to Mr. Wall, bird-preserver, 
Dublin, was the only individual of the species ever received by 
him. In the month of January 1838, an immature bird was 
* Mr. J. V. Stewart, 
