red-necked grebe. 
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teotSre?” inches; 
Total length, 15 inches; wing, 6 o. 
in the want of all the oinaineiitai 
a,.„.„c lore, “f U?h^he node - 
and flanks spotted with dusky-brown. 
. „ TTnner narts dark brown, striped with white 
Tid^par^whi^Spedln^^^ 
brow'll {Seel’ohm). 
cnaracters.— Adult birds are recognised from the three suc- 
ceeding species by their larger size. The species cannot oe 
confounded with L. cristata in summer plumage, as it has the 
fire and throat afrey without any rufous tippet. 
In iinterdress tL two species are very much alike, but the 
want of the white lores and eyebrow distinguishes L.gri^eigena 
renter and immature phimige from the corresponding stages 
of Z. cristata. . . . 
Ransce in Great Britain.— The Red-necked Grebe is princiiially 
a vvinter visitor to our eastern coasts, and is rarely found on the 
western side of England and Scotland, and has only occurred 
some half-dozen times in Ireland. It is likewise seen on 
the southern shores of England but more sparmgly than on 
the eastern ones, though it is said to be not unfrequently met 
with in Cornwall. 
Range outside the British Islands.-The present species breeds 
thro^hout Russia from Archangel to Ure Caspian black 
Seas, as far east as Turkestan, and westwards the bal ic and 
Northern Germany to the South of Norway. 1 « ^ 
Europe it is a migrant, but Colonel Irby has sceo yomig^spca^ 
mens from Marocco, and believes that they weic , | 
’ '' America L. griscigcna is icplaccd h) .r 
country. In North 
