18 Birds of North Carolina 



Range. — North America and Eastern Asia; lirccdinj; from the extreme northern United States 

 northward; winters from Maine to North Carolina. 



Range in Xortli CdruHiui. — C'oastal res^ion in winter; occasionally inland. 



Holboell's Grebe is a winter resident as far south as South CaroUna. It is most 

 coniiiioniy met with along the eoast, although it is said to occur inland sometimes 

 during tlie spring migration. When alarmed it frequentlj' swims with the bodj' sub- 

 merged. It may readily be distingui.shetl from the loons by its smaller size, except 

 in the ease of the Red-throated Loon, from which it can lie told in flight by the con- 

 spicuous white patch on the wings. Fishermen report that these birds are fre- 

 quently caught in shad nets in the Neuse River below New Bern. Specimens were 

 exhibited in the flesh at the New Bern Fair in 1S92 and 1893 (H. H. Brindey). 

 Other records of its occurrence are those of C'oucs at Fort Macon in 1871, and at 

 Chapel Hill, where one was taken by J.J. Dunlap in 1877. 



Fig. 1. Hol.lia'l.I.'S Gkebe. Winter Phniiime. 



Two specimens in the flesh, both males, were receivetl at the State Museum on 

 March 12, 1912. They were sent by Jesse Benjamin Etheridge of Manteo, Dare 

 County, who writes under date of March 9: "They were taken from a pound net 

 to-day near Hoauoke Island. They are very rare in this section." 



2. Colymbus auritus (Lhut.). Horned Grkke. 



Description: Ads. iJi summer. — Top of head, hindneck, and tliroat, glos.sy blackish ; lores 

 pale cliestnut; stripe, and plumes behind eye, huffy ocliraeoous. deeper posteriorly; back and 

 wiii^s blackisli; secondaries white; foreueck, upper l)reast and sides chestnut; lower breast and 

 belly white, .b/.s. in winlir awl Im. — I'pperparts grayish Ijlack; underparts silvery white, 

 sometimes washed with (jrayish on the throat and breast; white of cheeks nearly meeting on 

 hindneck. L., \:i.r,i); \V., .").4(); Tar., l.T.'i; H., .90. 



Reinart:.-<. — DitTers from /'. ixxlirciK. in more pointed l)ill, more white in wing, and in winter 

 has no brown below. (Chap., liinls of K. .V. .1.) 



/^n/(/c.— Northern part of Northern Hemisphere; breeds from northern tier of States north- 

 ward; wintiTs from Nlaine to Florida. 



Range in Xortli Carol inn. — Coastal region in winter, common. Occasionally inland. 



These interesting l)irds are abundant winter residents in the bays and sounds of 

 our southern coast. They feed often within a few hundred yards of shore, and, 

 while not associating regularly in flocks, as many as several hundred may some- 

 times lie counted within sight at one time. When not distrulxnl, they readily 

 become tame and will ajiproach witliiu a few feet of a boat at anchor or pass be- 



