

Gexus PODlLY-MI'.rS Lksson. 

 PODTLYxMBUS PODICEPS (I.inn.). 



4. Pied-billed Grebe. 



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Length. 12 to 14; wing, about ."> : liill. I 'H- less; taisus. IJ,. Adult: -Bill 

 hlnish, dusky on the ridge, encircled with a Mack liar; throat with a long V)lack 

 patch; tipper parts blackish-brown: ))riniaiieis ashy brown ; secondaries ashy 

 and white; lowei' parts silky white, nnirt- (n- Ifss mottled oi- oVjscured with 

 dusky; the lower neck in front, t'oic bit-ast and sides, washed witli I'listv. 

 Yonng lacking the throat-patch and |)C(uliar marks ot' tjic liill. otherwise not 

 particularly different; in a very early jdumuge with liic lieail curiously striped. 



Hab. — British Provinces southward to Brazil. Buenos Ayres and Chili, 

 including West Indies and the Bermudas, bi-eeding nearly throughout its range. 



Nest, a little Hoating island of witheied reeds and rushes mixed « ith mud. 

 fastened to the acpiatic plants, raised two or thi-ce inches abo^■e watei-. 



Kggs. five to seven, whitish, tdouded with green. 



Tlu* l);il> C'liick is not i|uit(' so mimei-ous ;is tlir Honied (iivlu', 

 neither is it .so lianly. Ueing a little later in airi\ in^ in spring, and 

 disappearing in the fall at the first touch of frost. ft is genei-ally 

 distributed, and is the onlv one of the faiuih" which l)reefls in Hamil 

 ton Bar, where it may often he seen in the iidets in summei- accoin- 

 ])anied hv its young witli their curiously striped necks. Firnn its 

 small size and confiding manners it is not nuich disturl)"(|. hut if 

 alai-med it has a convenient hahit ^^i sinking (juietly under water, md 

 to reappear till danger is past. 



