Mr. E. Booth had " a full-plumaged adult and a
couple of downy mites " brought to him by a Norfolk
marshman.
In the winter months I have found this bird in great
numbers in the bays and creeks of the Mediterranean,
in Southern and Eastern Spain, Sardinia, Corsica, Sicily,
Tunis, and in all parts of the Ionian and Albanian
shores, as well as on inland lakes and lagoons. I also
found it tolerably common in November and December
in the harbour of Santander. In the early summer of
1 872 we found a few pairs of this Grebe breeding on
some small freshwater pools in a wild district of Anda-lucia;
the nests were more substantially built than
those of the Great Crested and Little Grebes that were
also frequenting the locality; but I could not observe
any remarkable difference of habits in this species from
those of their more abundant relations just mentioned.
The Eared Grebe is exceedingly common in the
breeding-season in many parts of N. Africa, and ranges
southward to the Cape.
