The Oologist. 



Vol. XXI. No. 7. 



Albion, N. Y., July, 1904. 



Whole No. 204 



The Oologist. 



A Monthly Publication Devoted to 



OOLOGY, ORNITHOLOGY AND 



TAXIDERMY. 



FRANK H. LATTIN, Publisher, 

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An Ornithological Iron-clad. 



Number One of the A. O. U. is 

 not such a very interesting bird from 

 the standpoint of the scientific orni- 



thologist but in the trite language of 

 my erstwhile friend Josh Billings, he 

 is "an amoosin' cuss." I have gotten 

 more downright hilarity out of watch- 

 ing the western Grebe than any other 

 bird in the catalogue. He always re- 

 minds me of an Iron-clad Monitor un- 

 der full steam, with nothing of him 

 but an elongated neck and. a mere 

 speck of dark gray back sticking up 

 out of the water. Below the long rail- 

 road bridge crossing Lake Pen'd 

 Oreille (pronounced Pond deray) in 

 northern Idaho this bird is a constant 

 resident. They breed in the sedgy 

 marshes surrounding the lake and in 

 the winter season fish in the channel. 

 For the lake has a channel and a cur- 

 rent being only a widening of the 

 Clark's Fork of the Columbia. Any 

 day you may sit on the bridge and see 

 from fifty to one hundred of them dis- 

 porting themselves in the limpid wa- 

 ter. They are not gunned very much, 

 in fact it does very little good to gun 

 them for like Johnny's woodchuck, 

 they can get home faster than a gun 

 can shoot. This is a fact that I had 

 to acquire by stern experience. I want- 

 ed a few of them for mounting and 

 took out my Smith for that purpose. 

 After firing away about a ton of shot, 

 and every time the shot got there the 

 bird was over in another county, I 

 concluded that as far as Mr. L. C. 

 Smith and his justly famous gun was 

 concerned, I would go hungry for 

 Grebe a long time. I finally secured a 

 few however by laying for them with a 

 22 rifle. Its about the most amusing- 

 ly provoking thing in my experience 

 to see one of these fellows tip up at 

 the report of your gun and calmly dis- 

 appear beneath the water. It is all 



