216 STATE AGRICULTURAL COLLEGE BULLETINS. 



B1RL>S OF MICHIGA]^^, 



Order PYGOPODES. Diving Birds. 

 Suborder PODICIPEDES. Grebes. 



Family PODICIPID.F.. Grebes ; Hell-Divers. 



These curious birds are mostly eonlined to the water and are great divers, said to 

 dodge even the rifle ball. 



Genus ^CHMOPHORUS Coues. 



l-l-(845). jEclimo])horii!s occidentalis (Z-a«-r.). Western Grebe. 



Very rare ; probably accidental ; one specimen killed near Lansing and now in the 

 collection of Mr. C. H. Davis ; one specimen reported in catalogue of •• Kent Scientific 

 Institute'' by E. L. Mosley ; included in " Butler's Birds of Indiana." 



Genus ('OLYMBUS Linn. 



2-2-(847). Colymbus liolbn^llii (Reinh.). Red-necked Grebe ; Holbcell's Grebe. 



Very rare ; migrant ; we have one from Saginaw Bay ; '• One taken by Prof. Smith at 

 Hillsdale, in the spring of 1890, and now in the Hillsdale College museum " ( F. M. 

 Falconer ) ; taken by S. E. White off Mackinac Island ; " taken occasionally at Sault 

 Ste. Marie '' ( C. S. Osborn ). This species is included in the list of Fox and in that of 

 Dr. A.Sagerof 1839. 



3-3-(84:8). Colymbus aiiritiis Linn. Horned Grebe. 



Common throughout the state ; '• one taken Feb. 26. 1892. snow bound in Pittsford 

 township. Hillsdale county " ( A. H. Boies ); " tolerably common spring and fall migrant 

 on Saginaw Bay, common on Heisterman's Island during the fall months, a perfect 

 albino was taken. Oct., 1883'' ( N. A. Eddy ) ; "took four males and two females at Port 

 Sanilac which are now mounted and in my collection, saw several along lake shore 

 from May 15 to July 1. I think they breed on Black River, six miles we.st of here'' 

 ( W. A. Oldheld) ; fall and spring migrant; occasional in summer; " northern U. S.'' 

 (Jordan); "Iron Mountain. May 18, 1890" ( E. E. Brewster); "Keweenaw Point" 

 (Kneeland) ; breeds ; nests in May, on bogs in marshes ; " breeds in Wayne count}'" 

 ( B. W. Swales) ; O. B. Warren informs me that, though a rare migrant at .\lbion. it is 

 very common in the marshes of the St. Joseph and Paw Paw rivers where it breeds 

 abundantly; a tine male was taken by ,J. H. Purdy at Plymouth; "rare transient in 



