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NEBRASKA STATE HORTICULTURAL SOCIETY. 



be set down as injurious, neitlier can they be termed beneficial, on 

 account of their food-habits. 



1. .fflchmophorus occidentalis {Laior.). — Western Grebe. 



Cut-ofl' lake near Omaha (L. Skow); "North Platte, common migrant in 

 spring and fall" (M. K. Barnum). 



2. Colymbus holbcellii (Reinh.). — American Red-necked 



Grebe. 



Reported and taken at Alda, Nebr., rare (Bull. 2, U. S. Dept. Agr., Div. 

 Ornith.); North America (Ridgeway). 



Fig. 1. — Horned Grebe. 



3. Colymbus aiiritus imn.— Horned Grebe. 



West Point, Nebr., common (L. Bruner) ; "Migratory, rare" (Taylor); 

 "Northern hemisphere" (Goss); northern portions of northern hemisphere 

 (Ridgeway); Cherry county — breeds (J. M. Bates); "a common breeder in 

 alkali lakes of Cherry connty, .Tune 20-30" (T. S. Trostler). 



4. Colymbus nigricollis californicus {Heerm.). — American 



Eared Grebe. 



Throughout the state, especially along larger streams and lakes (L. Brnner); 

 "Rather abundant in Nebraska" (Aughey); " Migratory, abundant, arrive in 



