86 MEMOIRS OF THE NUTTALL ORNITHOLOGICAL CLUB. 



2. Colymbus auritus Linn. 

 Horned Grebe. 



Transient visitor, uncommon in autumn, very rare in spring. 



SEASONAL OCCURRENCE. 



Marcli 26, 1896, one male^ taken, Lower Mystic Pond, A. Franklin. 



October 2, 1894, one ini. taken. Lower Mystic Pond, G. B. Frazar, 

 November 9, 1902, one seen, Fresh Pond, P. T. Coolidge. 



The Horned Grebe occurs abundantly along the Massachusetts coast during 

 the spring and autumn migrations, and is not uncommon there in winter, also, 

 but it does not visit the waters of the Cambridge Region at all regularly or fre- 

 quently. I have never personally met with it in any of them, but my collection 

 includes the skins of two young birds which were killed in Fresh Pond, one on 

 October 13, 1882, the other during the same month of the following year. Both 

 were taken by Mr. Charles R. Lamb, in whose note-book, under date of October, 

 1882, I find the following entry: " Horned Grebes were common in Fresh Pond 

 during this month, from about the 8th to the 25th or not quite so late. I saw 

 two or three nearly every morning, and should say that at least ten or a dozen 

 were shot. As a rule they occurred singly and were very shy, diving or flying 

 when approached. On the morning of the 17th, however, three very tame birds 

 were seen together." Mr. Harold Bowditch tells me that in 1902 he noted a 

 Horned Grebe in Fresh Pond nearly every day from October 25 to November 

 3, and that a bird, which he believes to have been the same individual, was 

 seen there on November 9 by his friend, Mr. Philip T. Coolidge. 



I have a Horned Grebe in nearly full breeding plumage which Mr. Arthur 

 Franklin of West Medford shot in Lower Mystic Pond on March 26, 1896, and 

 Mr. George B. Frazar has shown me a young bird which he took in this pond on 

 October 2, 1904. Mr. Walter Faxon informs me that there is a mounted speci- 

 men in Arlington, which was killed in Spy Pond about thirty years ago. 



1 No. 46,153, collection of William Brewster. 



