88 



BIRDS OF THE HUDSON HIGHLANDS; 



Family, COLYMBIDJE. 



208. Colymbus torquatus, Briinnich. Loon; Grrat North- 

 ern Diver. A common spring and fall migrant. A few possibly re- 

 main during summer, and breed. 



209. Colymbus septentrionalis, Linne. Red-throated 

 Diver. The first specimen of this species taken on the Hudson, was 

 procured by Peter de Nottbeck, Esq., on November 14, 1876, at Low 

 Point, sixty-one miles from New York City. 1 Mr. Winfrid A. Stearns 

 has since recorded another capture, in his " List of Birds in Vicinity 

 of Fishkill-on-Hudson, N. Y.," page 15. 



B. List of the Families of Birds known to inhabit the 

 Hudson Highlands, with the number of their rep- 

 resentative species. 



1 Turdidae . 



2 Saxicolidae 



3 Sylviidae . 



4 Paridae 



5 Sittidae 



6 Certhiidae 



7 Troglodytidae 



8 Alaudidae 



9 Motacillidae 



10 Sylvicolidae 



11 Tanagridae 



12 Hirundinidae 



13 Ampelidae 



14 Vireonidse 



15 Laniidae . 



16 Fringillidae 



17 Icteridae . 



18 Corvidae . 



19 Tyrannidae 



SPECIES. 



7 

 1 

 2 

 1 

 2 

 1 

 3 

 1 

 1 



32 

 1 

 6 

 2 

 6 

 1 



26 

 8 

 3 



!See Bull. Nutt. Orn. Club, Vol. HI, No. 3, p. 116, July, 1S78 



