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PACIFIC COAST AVIFAUNA 



No. 14 



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5. Podilymbus podiceps (Litiiiaeus) 



Pied-billed Grebe 



A siiiiiiner resident, not reported from many localities, and apparently eom- 

 iiion only in tiie sontliern half of the state. 



Records: Regnlar summer resident in Fergus County (Silloway, l!)():5a. j). 

 11.) Noted once at Flathead Lake (Silloway, 1901a, [). 37). In small numbers 

 on the Big Horn River (McChesney, 1879, p. 2895). Yellowstone River, .May 

 23 and 31, 1904 (Cameron, 1907, p. 247). Gallatin County, August 2!). 19()S 

 (Saunders, 1911a, p. 32). Rare in summer in Teton County (Saunders, l!)14a, 

 p. 127). Nests commonly on little lakes in vicinity of Billings (Thomas, MS). 



Fig. 10. Female Horxed Grebe on the xest. Near Dutto.n, Teton County, 

 Montana; June, 1917. Photo by A. D. DuBois. 



6. Gavia immer (lirunnich) 



Loon 



A summer i-esident in suitable localities, mainly in the northwestern part 

 of the state. Noted as a migrant elscnvhere, b\it records in the eastern |)art of 

 the state are few. 



Records: Flathead Lake, common summer resident. (Silloway, li)01a, p. 

 37). Abundant on the Missouri (Grinnell, 1876, p. (ir)")). Gallatin Valley 

 (Saunders, 1911a, p. 32). Priest Butte Lake. Teton County, May 2(5. 1912 

 (Saunders, 1914a, j). 127). Stevensville, Ravalli County, taken in April, 1908, 

 in April or May, 1910, and in the fall of 1912 (Bailey, MS). Winter records: 

 Found dead in ice on Foy's Lake, Kalispell, December 24, 1917. Two seen on 

 Flathead Lake, January 12, 1917 (Sloanaker, MS). Seen on the Yellowstone 



