170 Annals of the Carnegie Museum. 



1. Colymbus dominicus dominicus Linnaeus. Saint Domingo Grebe. 



"Least Grebe" Read, Oologist, XXVII, 1910, 15, and XXX, 1913, 131 (I. of 



Pines, Dec. 25, 1909); XXVIII, 1911, 114 (West McKinley). 

 Colymbus dominicus Read, Oologist, XXVIII, 1911, 13 (I. of Pines). 



One specimen: Caleta Grande. 



This example, the only one observed, was shot in a small lagoon 

 on November 28. It is an adult male in full winter dress, with a 

 white throat. In size it agrees with Cuban specimens, measuring as 

 follows: wing, 96; culmen, 26. Mr. Read has recorded the species in 

 the northwestern part of the island, and writes that he shot a specimen 

 April 14, 1 910, along the Nuevas River. It is evidently not a very 

 common bird on the island, and by reason of its secretive habits readily 

 eludes observation. 



2. Podilymbus podiceps (Linnaeus). Pied-billed Grebe. 



Podilymbus podiceps Bangs & Zappey, Am. Nat., XXXIX, 1905, 184 (Nueva 



Gerona, breeding, fide Palmer Sz: Riley; Laguna Grande, March). — Re.\d, 



Oologist, XXVIII, 1911, II (I. of Pines). 

 "Pied-billed Grebe" Read, Oologist, XXVI, 1909, 102 (I. of Pines). — Read, 



Forest and Stream, LXXIII, 1909, 452 (I. of Pines, May 7). — Read, Oologist, 



XXVIII, 1911, 113 (West McKinley). 



One specimen: Los Indios. 



Recently Mr. Outram Bangs has described the Pied-billed Grebe 

 of the Antilles as a distinct subspecies, Podilymbus podiceps antillarum 

 {Proceedings New England Zoological Cliih, IV, 1913, 89). After an 

 e.xamination of the type-specimen and certain other material I find 

 myself unable to indorse this separation on any grounds whatever. 

 The type is no smaller than a female specimen from northern Brevard 

 County, Florida, in the collection of the Carnegie Museum, taken at 

 just about the same date. Females of this species, besides being 

 smaller, seem to have on an average a more restricted black throat- 

 patch than males, and I have reason to believe that the black marking 

 on the side of the bill is a variable character, dependent largely upon 

 season, and not especially correlated with locality. A breeding speci- 

 men from Great Inagua, Bahama Islands, is certainly in nowise dis- 

 tinguishable from continental examples. According to Baird, Brewer, 

 & Ridgway {Water Birds of North America, II, 1884, 441), South 

 American examples are not tangibly different, contrary to what 

 might be expected in the case of such a wide-ranging species. 



