. An illustrated manual of British birds. Birds. PODICIPEDID^.. 723. M^^ - \ THE BLACK-NECKED OR EARED GREBE. PoDiciPES nigric6llis, C. L. Brehm. This Grebe is rather smaller than the preceding species; and is chiefly a southern bird which at intervals pushes its migrations in spring and summer as far to the north-west as the British Islands ; it also visits us—though more rarely—in autumn and winter, to escape the severe cold of the Continent. Individuals in complete breeding-dress have been obtained occasionally in most of our southern and eastern counties ; and there is even strong presumpt
. An illustrated manual of British birds. Birds. PODICIPEDID^.. 723. M^^ - \ THE BLACK-NECKED OR EARED GREBE. PoDiciPES nigric6llis, C. L. Brehm. This Grebe is rather smaller than the preceding species; and is chiefly a southern bird which at intervals pushes its migrations in spring and summer as far to the north-west as the British Islands ; it also visits us—though more rarely—in autumn and winter, to escape the severe cold of the Continent. Individuals in complete breeding-dress have been obtained occasionally in most of our southern and eastern counties ; and there is even strong presumptive evidence that the bird has bred in Norfolk, for Booth had " a fuU- plumaged adult and a couple of downy mites " brought to him by a marshman ((/". Tr. Norfolk & N. Nat. Soc. vol. iv. p. 416, footnote). Northward, this Grebe is fairly common on the coast of Northum- berland ; beyond the Tweed, however, it becomes scarcer, though it can be traced to the Orkneys, but not to the Shetlands. On the west of Scotland the only authenticated occurrences appear to be those of an adult on Loch Sunart in the spring of 1866, one in Skye in January 1895, and a pair shot on the Nith. A few instances are on record from Cumberland, Lancashire, and the Isle of Man; while the bird is a regular visitor in February and March to the coast of Merionethshire, and has been obtained in Pembrokeshire. In 3 K 2. Please note that these images are extracted from scanned page images that may have been digitally enhanced for readability - coloration and appearance of these illustrations may not perfectly resemble the original Saunders, Howard, 1835-1907. London, Gurney and Jackson
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