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DUSKY GREBE.
SCLAVÜNIAN GREBE. HORNED GREBE. HORNED DABCHICK.
BLACK AND WHITE DABCHICK.
Colymbus obscurus,
" C(lSj)lCUS,
" cornutus,
Podiccps cornulus,
" obscurus,
" Caspicus,
GMELIN.
( rMELIN.
GMELIN.
LATHAM.
LATHAM.
LATHAM.
Colymbus—A Diver. Cornulus—Horned. Coniu—A horn.
T H I S Grebe is found in E u r o p e in Iceland, and occurs in France,
Germany, Holland, Switzerland, and Italy. In Sweden it breeds, so
also in Sclavonia, whence one of its names. In America it ranges
from Hudson's Bay and the Fur Countries, Canada and the United
S t a t e s , to Florida, and is a generally d i s t r i b u t e d species. It is found
likewise in the n o r t h e r n parts of Asia, and about the Caspian Sea.
T h e places that it frequents are both the sea-coast and its inlets,
l a k e s , and large ponds.
A fine immature specimen of the Sclavonian Grebe was found on
t h e 22nd. of October, 1853, in a disabled state by the side of the
r a i l w a y , near Stockton-on-Tees, having evidently flown against the
t e l e g r a p h wires, as many other birds have at different times done, t he
r e s u l t being a fatal ' s h o c k to the system,' the ' e l e c t r i c w i r e ' being at
one and the same time a ' c o n d u c t o r ' thereof, and a ' n o n - c o n d u c t o r '
t o them.
One of these birds, of* which W. Brooks Gates, Esq. has given me
an account, was taken in the parish of Weston Favell, near Northampton,
in J a n u a r y , 1855. Another, a young bird, at P i d d i n g h o e , in
Sussex, the end of J a n u a r y , 1850. One also in Lancashire, on a reservoir
at Berwick. In Oxfordshire, several have been killed near