o means shy, and when undisturbed, amongst the reeds and grass, keep up
glide through the water, and dart through thick, entangled masses of
The late Mr. John Wolley, acting on information
own on the Kalix Noir, in the north of Sweden,
om the locality where that gentleman met

exhausted. ‘These Grebes are by n
an incessant croaking. They swiftly
weeds and grass with the ease and rapidity i a fish.”
supplied him by Mr. Dann, found that this bind was well kn
and subsequently succeeded in getting specimens of its eggs fr

with it many years before. =:
Independently of the countries mentioned above, I may state that it inhabits every other part of Europe ;

“t is included in the ‘ List of North African Birds ’ by Captain Loche ; and specimens have been transmitted
from Trebizond in Persia. It does not extend its range to the peninsula of India; but I find it included by
Schrenck in his account of the Birds of the Amur-land, and Temminck says it is found in Japan. In
Greenland there is a bird of this form, which is so similar to the Podiceps rubricolhs that they have been
considered identical by some, while others have regarded it as distinct, and have assigned to it the specific
designation of P. Holbelh. Among my MSS. I find a note to the following effect ee unc specimens
agree with European, except in being somewhat larger.” Dr. Baird, who callls it Podiceps griseigend,
evidently considers the bird identical with ours. . It is likely, however, the American and Greenland birds
may be the same, and distinct from the true P. rubricollis, in which case the name of P. Holbalh, assigned
to it by Reichenbach, should be retained.

In no respect do the sexes differ in colour :
female ; both assume the ornamental head-dress in summer, which gives place to a more sombre hue in

the same law which affects the male is also carried out in the

winter.
No difference occurs in the nidification of this Grebe from that of the other members of the genus; the

nest is placed on the surface of the water, among aquatic herbage and reeds, of which materials it is also built.
The eggs are four or five in number, of a pale greenish white, and are somewhat smaller in size than those
of P. cristatus. They are often stained by the materials with which the nest is built, till they acquire a rich
orange-red hue; and it seems commonly the case for eggs of the Grebe to be more brilliantly dyed than
those of any other species.

Crown of the head and back of the neck dark olive-brown; upper surface of the body brownish black ;
cheeks and throat brownish grey, bordered with greyish white; primaries brownish black ; secondaries
white; front of the neck, chest, and upper portion of the flanks rich rusty red; breast and abdomen silvery
white; bill brownish horn-colour, except at the base, which, with the gape, is orange-yellow; irides red ;
tarsi clouded with pea-green ; upper side of the toe bluish white, particularly in the centre of the lobes.

The young bird of the year has neither the red neck nor the elongated head-feathers; the throat is
brownisb, and the abdomen less silvery; the part of the neck which is red in summer is brown in the
youthful state; irides brown; base of the bill paler orange.

The Plate represents the two sexes of the size of life, and a reduced bird in the distance. The plant is
the Buckbean (AWenyanthes trifoliata).