4 CHECK-LIST OF NORTH AMERICAN BIRDS. 



Range. — Breeds from near the Arctic coast to Maine, the Magdalen Islands, 

 Quebec, Ontario (Lac Seul), Minnesota, southern Wisconsin, northern Ne- 

 braska, and southern British Columbia; also in Iceland, northern continental 

 Europe, and Siberia; recorded in summer in Massachusetts, Connecticut, 

 Michigan, and Indiana. Winters from Maine and New York to Florida and 

 Louisiana and from southern Alaska to southern California, interior winter 

 records being mainly from the region of the Great Lakes; also winters in central 

 and southern Europe, northern Africa, and the Azores, and on the coasts of 

 China and Japan. Casual in Greenland, Bermuda, and the Commander 

 Islands. 



Colymbus nigricollis califomicus (Heermann). Eared Grebe. [4.] 



Podiceps Califomicus Heermann, Proc. Acad. Nat. Sci. Phila., VII, No. 5, 

 Sept.-Oct., 1854 [April 12, 18.55], 179. (California.) 



Range. — Breeds from southern interior British Columbia and southern 

 Manitoba south to northern Lower California, central Arizona, southern Texas, 

 and northern Iowa; casual in summer north to Great Slave Lake. Winters 

 from Washington to Cape San Lucas and Guatemala; ranges east to Kansas in 

 migration. Casual in Missouri and Indiana. [Allied races occur in Europe, 

 Asia, and Africa.] 



Subgenus TACHYBAPTUS Reichenbach. 



Tachyha-ptus Reichenbach, Avium Syst. Nat. [plates of generic charac- 

 ters] pi. ii, 1849. Type, by subs, desig., Colymbus minor Reichenbach 

 = C. ruficollis Pallas (Reichenbach, 1853). 



Colymbus dominicus brachypterus Chapman. Mexican Grebe. [5.] 



Colymbus dominicus brachypterus Chapman, Bull. Amer. Mus. Nat. Hist., 

 XII, Art. 19, Dec. 23, 1899, 256. (Lomita Ranch, Lower Rio Grande, 

 Texas.) 



Range. — Southern Lower California and southern Texas south to Panama. 

 [Allied races occur in the West Indies and South America.] 



Genus AECHMOPHORUS Coues. 



Mchmophorus Coues, Proc. Acad. Nat. Sci. Phila., [XIV] 1862, No, 5, 

 April-May [Aug. 1], 229. Type, by orig. desig., Podiceps occidenialis 

 Lawrence. 



Aechmophorus occidentalis (Lawrence). Western Grebe. [1.] 



Podiceps occidentalis Lawrence, in Baird, Cassin, and Lawrence, Rep. 

 Expl. and Surv. R. R. Pac, IX, 1858, liv, 892, 894. (Washington 

 Territory to California = Fort Steilacoom, Washington.) 



