. The birds of Berwickshire; with remarks on their local distribution migration, and habits, and also on the folk-lore, proverbs, popular rhymes and sayings connected with them . nly two or three examples were seenin the spring of 1882.* The smooth, silky breast of thisGrebe is used for making ladies muffs, and on this accountthe bird is frequently pursued by men with guns in a boat,when it dives with such rapidity that it can be shot onlyafter a long chase, 1 From the glossy, silky white skin of the breast being used by furriers forcape trimmings and tii^pets.—Swainsons Folk-Lore of British B
. The birds of Berwickshire; with remarks on their local distribution migration, and habits, and also on the folk-lore, proverbs, popular rhymes and sayings connected with them . nly two or three examples were seenin the spring of 1882.* The smooth, silky breast of thisGrebe is used for making ladies muffs, and on this accountthe bird is frequently pursued by men with guns in a boat,when it dives with such rapidity that it can be shot onlyafter a long chase, 1 From the glossy, silky white skin of the breast being used by furriers forcape trimmings and tii^pets.—Swainsons Folk-Lore of British Birds, ji. 215. 2 Mr. G. Bolam records that he saw a specimen in 1881 as late as 30th May onthe Tweed near Berwick Bridge.—Hist. Ber. Nat. Club, vol. x. p. 395. 3 Hist. Ber. Nat. Club, vol. ix. p. 391. ^ Ibid. vol. ix. p. 552. 314 THE GEEAT CEESTED GREBE. Seebohm says that it has not hitherto been known tobreed in Scotland, but that it nests in some parts of Englandand Ireland.^ It feeds generally on fish, frogs, and aquatic insects, andnumbers of its feathers are usually found mixed with thefood in its stomach on dissection. 1 Seebohm, British Birds, vol. iii. p.
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