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 A HISTORY OF RUTLAND 190. Kittiwake. Rissa tridactyla (Linn.). Not common, though A. C. Elliot re- cords ' many immature specimens ' before 1883. I have only three other notices of it, viz. 2 January 1898, at Burley ; one at Ket- ton about 1899 ; and a more recent specimen seen at Empingham by Mr. A. E. G. Dixon. 191. Arctic or Richardson's Skua. Sterco- rarlus crepldatus (J. F. Gmelin). One was picked up on Barrovvden Heath in 1866. This specimen was sold with the rest of the late A. C. Elliot's collection at Peterborough in 1885. 192. Razorbill. A lea tarda, Linn. The only record is one killed at Seaton in 1879 by a Mr. Royce (A. C. Elliot). 193. Common Guillemot. Uria tro'tle (Linn.). One was shot in 1873 near Thorpe by Water; a second at Seaton in 1879, and a third near Liddington about 1890. A fourth was seen near the same place in 1900. 194. Little Auk. Mergulus alle (Linn.). Stragglers have been taken at Casterton, Exton, LufFenham, Barrowden, Pickworth, Essendine, and near Stamford, nine in all, the last being on 18 October 1894. 195. Black-throated Diver. Colymbus arctictis, Linn. One was shot at Exton about 1850. Mr. Montagu Browne pronounces it an immature bird, or an adult in autumnal plumage. 196. Red-throated Diver. Colymbus septen- trionalis, Linn. An immature specimen was shot at Exton Pond about 1858. 197. Great Crested Grebe. Podlctpes crUtatm (Linn.). A summer migrant, breeding in the county. It returns to its breeding haunts in February. The earliest record of this species in Rutland was of one killed at Tixover on 28 Novem- ber 1883. It was noticed at Exton Pond first in 1885, when it nested there, and was seen there 24 March 1888. Since 1898 it has nested there yearly. At Burley it nests regularly. But I have no report of it from anywhere else in the county. 198. Sclavonian Grebe. Podiclpes aurltus (Linn.). ' Not very scarce in Rutland,' said the late A. C. Elliot, writing in 1883, but there are few notices of its appearance. One was killed at Casterton on 27 February 1 88 1. A second is said to have been seen at Exton Pond in 1897. It seems to occur at Burley Pond, and one is said to have been killed in 1896, described as a grebe, intermediate in size between the great crested grebe and the dabchick. The red-necked grebe {Podicipes griselgena) and the eared grebe (P. nigricollis) have not yet been recorded from Rutland. 199. Little Grebe. Podicipes _^uviatilis {Tun- stall). Locally, Didopper. Scarce except at Burley and Exton Ponds. A few pairs are to be found on the Welland and Gwash, and a pair generally on Burgess's Pond at Ridlington. A. C. Elliot describes a small variety, much less common than the usual kind, with dusky belly, dark-brown back, the bill of a horny-blue colour and rising up at the point, legs blue and blotched with white. 200. Storm-Petrel. Procellaria pelagica, Linn. Two instances are recorded : one at Em- pingham in 1879, which formed part of A. C. Elliott's collection, sold in 1885. The other specimen was found killed against tele- graph wires at Burley, and is preserved there (no date). 201. Leach's Fork-tailed Petrel. Oceanodroma leucorrhea (Vieillot). One picked up dead at Empingham in 1876. It was very fat and oily. 202. Manx Shearwater. Pufftnus anglorum (Temminck). One picked up at Empingham, no date (A. C. Elliot). 76