EASED GBEBE.
PODICEPS NIGRICOLLIS, C. L. Brehm.
Podiceps nigricollis, G L. Brehm, Vog. Deutschl. p. 963
(1831) ; Yarr. ed. 4, iv. p. 133; Dresser, viii. p. 651.
Colymbus cornutus, Naum. ix. p. 739.
Colymbus arcticus, Naum. ix. p. 755.
Podiceps auritus, Macg. v. p. 270; Hewitson, ii. p. 445.
Grebe oreillard, French; Schwarz-hals Ohrtaucher, German
; Zambullidor menor, Spanish.
My own acquaintance with this species was originally
formed in the Mediterranean, and subsequently carried
on in certain parts of Spain that are not bordered by
that sea. The only British specimen that I have ever
handled " in the flesh " was a fine male with fairly developed
ear-tufts, that was shot by Lord Clifton from my
yacht's gig in Weymouth Bay in April 1876. Many
specimens have been obtained (some of them in complete
breeding-dress) in Norfolk, Suffolk, and the southern
counties of England; it also occurs in Scotland and
Ireland. Mr. H. Saunders, from whose invaluable
' Manual' I quote these particulars, refers to the
'Transactions of the Norfolk and Norwich Nat. Hist.
Society ' to the effect that the late well-known collector