RED-NECKED GREBE. 
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NATA TORES. 
COL YMBIDxE. 
RED-NECKED GREBE. 
PODICEPS RUBRICOLLIS. 
PLATE CXX. FIG. I. 
Tee eggs of the Red-necked Grebe are described by 
Temminck as of a greenish white, clouded with deep 
brown,—his description referring only to such specimens 
as have become soiled and stained by the materials of 
which the nest is composed. When first laid, they are, 
like the eggs of all the species, of a pure chalk white, 
sometimes slightly tinted with blue. The Red-necked 
Grebe has not yet been detected in this country during 
the breeding-season. It makes its nest, like the rest of the 
species, amongst the reeds and rushes bordering the mar¬ 
gins of fresh-water lakes and ponds, and lays four or five 
eggs. I again quote from Mr. Yarrell’s valuable “ Birds/' 
the information of Mr. Dann, who says that this species 
“ is common, during the breeding-season, on many of the 
shallow reedy lakes at the head of the Bothnian Gulf, par¬ 
ticularly between Pitea and Lulea. They seem to be con¬ 
fined to the vicinity of the coast of the Baltic. I have 
never met with them anywhere in the interior of the 
country, except in Scona and in the northern provinces 
of Sweden, although the whole of northern Scandinavia 
abounds with lakes. The character of those lakes, where 
alone I have seen and procured specimens of the Red¬ 
necked Grebe so far north as latitude 66°, is precisely 
similar to that of the broads of Norfolk and the meres of 
Holland, where some of the Grebes are so numerous.” 
