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CRESTED GREBE. 
cubation has an imposing appearance, from the rich 
colouring and ample adornments of the head and 
neck. Unlike the divers, the larger Grehes have 
their range to the southward and continue resident 
in many of the English counties for the whole year, 
and more particularly in the fenny districts ; to the 
north of England they become more unfrequent in 
summer, and although Mr. Heysham has recorded 
the occurrence of this bird in Cumberland, we have 
never been so fortunate as to meet with it on the 
border during summer. It may he considered, in- 
deed there, and in Scotland, rather as a winter 
visitant, and that in no great abundance. Mr. 
Thompson says it is resident during the year on 
the larger Irish lakes. Neither does it seem very 
abundant in Northern Europe, though it is said 
to breed in Sweden, * while it is only a winter 
straggler on the coasts of Norway. Upon the wa- 
ters of Holland it is not unfrequent, and we once, 
after a long chase, succeeded with difficulty in 
shooting one in the vicinity of Rotterdam ; we had 
the assistance of a sail to our oars, and a fair wind. 
Out of Europe it has been recorded from Tangiers 
and Smyrna, t and South Africa, J and from the 
latter country we possess a specimen in breeding 
plumage. It is introduced in the Northern Zoology, 
and Mr. Audubon writes that it returns from its 
northern places of residence, and proceeds as far 
as the Mexican territories, passing through the air 
in flocks of from seven or eight to fifty and more. 
* Nilsson. + Yarrell. J Smith. 
