. The birds of Dorsetshire; a contribution to the natural history of the county. Birds. GREBES. 121 with the red throat well developed in October, and that he has sometimes shot them in this state of plumage with the wing-feathers moulting to such an extent that the birds were incapable of flight. This shows that they must swim down the coast from their northern breeding haunts, or else that, like the Penguins, they moult very rapidly. Fam. Podicipedid^. GKEAT-CRESTED GREBE. Podicej^s cristafus, (L.) Yarrell, iv. p. 117 ; liartinrj, p. 69 ; Dresser, viii. p. 629 ; Seehohm, iii. p. 455 ; Ibis L
. The birds of Dorsetshire; a contribution to the natural history of the county. Birds. GREBES. 121 with the red throat well developed in October, and that he has sometimes shot them in this state of plumage with the wing-feathers moulting to such an extent that the birds were incapable of flight. This shows that they must swim down the coast from their northern breeding haunts, or else that, like the Penguins, they moult very rapidly. Fam. Podicipedid^. GKEAT-CRESTED GREBE. Podicej^s cristafus, (L.) Yarrell, iv. p. 117 ; liartinrj, p. 69 ; Dresser, viii. p. 629 ; Seehohm, iii. p. 455 ; Ibis List, p. As a winter visitor the Great-Crested Grebe is not uncommon in the Portland Roads and at Weymouth. Mr. Pike saw " flocks " of more than twenty together off the Poole coast in November 1882. After Christmas they apparently go farther south, as. 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 Mansel-Pleydell, John Clavell, 1817-1902. London, R. H. Porter; [etc. , etc.
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