CHECK-LI ST. 1 



ORDER PYGOPODES. DIVING BIRDS. 



SUBORDER PODICIPEDES. GREBES. 

 FAMILY PODICIPID^. GREBES. 



GENUS .ffiCHMOPHORUS COUES. 



jEchmophonts COUES, Pr. Ac. Nat. Sci. Phila. April, 1862, 229. Type, 

 Podiceps occidentalis LAWR. 



1. JEchmophorus occidentalis (LAWR.). 



Western Grebe. 



Podiceps occidentalis LAWR. in BAIRD'S B. N. Am. 1858, 894. 

 jEchmophorus occidentalis COUES, Pr. Ac. Nat. Sci. Phila. 1862, 229. 



[B 704, C 608, R 729, C 845.] 

 HABITAT. Western North America, eastward to Manitoba. 



GENUS COLYMBITS LINN^US. 



Colymbus LINN. S. N. ed. 10, I. 1758, 135. Type, by elimination, 

 Colymbus cristatus LINN. 



SUBGENUS COLYMBUS. 



2. Colymbus holboellii (REINH.). 



Holboell's Grebe. 



Podiceps holbasllii REINH. Vid. Med. 1853, 76. 



Colymbus holbcellii RIDGW. Water B. N. Am. II. 1884, 428. 



1 For a detailed statement of the scope and plan of the present Check-List of 

 North- American Birds, see anteh, pp. 14, 15. 



