l6 CONNECTICUT GEOL. AND NAT. HIST. SURVEY. [Bull. 



Earliest record. New Haven, Sept. 12, 1882; Portland, Oct. 



19. 1877- 



Latest record. New Haven, March 16, 1894; Portland, May 



2, 1889. 



Recent records. Nov. 6, 1905, Sept. 28, 1906, Litchfield (E. 

 S. W.) ; Nov. 3, 1906, Guilford (L. B. B.) ; Oct. 6, and Nov. 9, 

 1906, Stony Creek (L. B. B.) ; May, 1906. Litchfield (H. K. J.) ;i 

 Oct. 21, 1907, New Haven (A. A. S.) ; Feb. 25, 1909, Portland 

 (J. H. S.). 



Breeding records. Mr. Job believes a pair bred in Litchfield 

 County in 1906. The following specimens in breeding plumage 

 are recorded for this state: North Haven, April 24, 1883; New 

 Haven, May, 1888 (L. C. S.) ; Portland, May 3, 1889 (in coll. 

 of J. H. S.) ; Stamford, May 8, 1893 (in coll. of Mr. Porter). 



The Horned Grebe has been recorded from the following 

 inland localities: Haddam (J. H. S.) ; Litchfield (E. S. W. and 

 H. K. J.) ; Melrose (C. A. Thompson) ;- Portland (J. H. S.) ; 

 East Hartford (W. E. T.). 



Podilymbus podiceps (Linneeus). Pied-billed Grebe. 



A common fall migrant in September and October on fresh- 

 water ponds and on the creeks of the tide-water marshes. Very 

 rare in the spring. 



Average fall migration. Sept. 15 — Oct. 20. 



Earliest record. New Haven, Aug. 30, 1895 ; Portland, Sept. 

 10, 1893. 



Latest record. New Haven, Oct. 25, 1882; Portland, Nov. 

 22, 1893. 



Spring records. April 7, 1892, Stratford (C. K. A., in coll. 

 of Bpt. Sci. Soc.) ; April 13, 1895, and April 19, 1905, Portland 

 (J. H. S.) ; April 12-14, 1906, New Haven (A. A. S.) ; April 

 2-23, 1910, West Haven (H. K. J.) ; May 6, 1910, West Haven 

 (L. B. B.). 



Breeding records. E. H. A. informs us that he has seen this 

 bird almost every month in the year on the ponds in Litchfield 

 County, and believes that they breed there. Mr. N. D. Betts of 

 Boulder. Colo., records^ seeing five adults on a pond in Wilton, 



ijob, The Sport of Bird Study, p. 287. 

 'O. and O., viii, i, p. 3- 

 ^Bird-Lore, xii, 5, p. 199. 



