Catalogue of the Birds of Connecticut. 



Order PYGOPODES. Diving Birds. 



Suborder COLYMBI. Grebes. 



Family COLYMBIDiE. Grebes. 



Colymbus holboelli (Reinhardt). Holboell's Grebe. 



A rare winter resident of Long Island Sound from November 

 to March ; very rare inland. 



Earliest record. Portland, Oct. 30, 1895. 



Latest record. Portland, May 3, 1889. 



Connecticut records. Linsley recorded this species from Strat- 

 ford; 1 Oct. 19, i860, Hartford, one shot (reported by Dr. Crary) ;* 

 Feb. 23, 1875, Saybrook, one taken (J. H. S.) ; Feb. 21, 1885, 

 New Haven (G. E. V., in Peabody Museum) ; spring, 1887 (?), 

 Milford, one taken (in coll. of L. C. S.) ; May 3, 1889, one; April 

 14, 1894, one; Oct. 30, 1895, one, Portland (in coll. of J. H. S.) ; 

 Nov. 16, 1895, Stony Creek, female taken (E. M. Cooper, in 

 coll. of L. B. B.) ; Feb. 20, 1899, Bridgeport, young male taken 

 (J. H. Canfield, in coll. of Mr. Beers) ; Feb. 27, 1902, Saybrook, 

 one taken (J. N. C.) ; Jan., 1904, New Haven (in coll. of L. 

 C. S.) ; April, 1904, Kent, one shot (recorded by H. K. J.) ;* 

 Jan. 26, 1905, Danbury, one picked up exhausted and kept some 

 time (Bristol, recorded by J. C. A. M., now in coll. of L. B. B.) ; 

 Feb. 6, 1908, Gaylordsville, one found alive (G. A. Clute, in coll. 

 of L. B. B.) ; Dec. 28, 1909, one; Oct. 15, 1910, Portland, one 

 (in coll. of J. H. S.). 



Colymbus auritus Linnaeus. Horned Grebe. 



Formerly a common fall migrant and winter resident on Long 

 Island Sound from October to May j 1 much rarer in recent years. 

 Never common in the interior of the state. 



1 Merriam, Birds of Conn., p. 137. 



2 Job, The Sport of Bird Study, p. 288. 



