to obtain, defied my youthful efforts, and never even gave
me the chance of a shot.
On the Lake of Geneva, in the neighbourhood of
Lausanne, this species was very abundant during the
winter of 1850-51, and we devoted a good deal of time
to the method of " chasse " described with considerable
accuracy in ' Yarrell.' I have, in years long gone by,
met with a good many of these Grebes during the
spring and summer upon certain of the " Broads " of
East Norfolk; their habits in that district are most
graphically described by the Rev. R. Lubbock in his
'Fauna of Norfolk,' published in 1845 ; but it must be
most gratifying to all lovers of birds to know that the
gloomy anticipations of this author as to the then very
probable extinction of the " Loon " in the localities of
which he wrote so lovingly, have not been verified, as
Mr. T. Southwell, who has just brought to a successful
conclusion the admirable ' Birds of Norfolk' left unfinished
by the late accomplished naturalist Mr. Henry
Stevenson, informs us that, owing to the various protective
Acts of Parliament and the goodwill of many
Norfolk land- and water-owners, the Grebe is now fairly
numerous again in many of its favourite haunts. As
the habits of this bird in Norfolk have been described
at length in the works just mentioned, I will merely say
with regard to England that my experience, as far as it
goes, confirms the details there given in every respect.
I found several pairs of the Great Grebe breeding on
some small sheets of fresh water in Andalucia in May
1872, in company with many Eared Grebes (P. nigri-collis).
Little Grebes (P.jiuviatilis), and two species of