PYGOPODES” Divine: Birps. 
Famity I. PODICIPIDAS. Greses. 
I. AXCHMOPHORUS. Covzs. 1862. 
1. Western Grebe, 
Lichmophorus occidentalis (LAwR.) 
Accidental in Quebec. Mr. Cowper states in Canadian Sports- 
man, Vol. II., that he has seen several specimens on the market 
in Montreal. (Dzonne.) Some time before 1881 a pair was shot 
at the mouth of the North Nation River, Ont. (O# Nat.) Oc- 
casionally shot in the Red River valley, Man. Found in 1881 in 
great numbers breeding in some of the western bays of Lake 
Manitoba and on Waterhen River and Waterhen Lake. 
Our knowledge of the migration of the Western Grebe is still 
incomplete, but on May 8th, 1891, specimens were shot at Banff 
in the Rocky Mountains. The next year it reached Indian Head, 
500 miles to the east, on May 12th. At that time the stomachs 
of the birds shot contained nothing but feathers. Two days later 
one was shot that had an amphibian (Amblystoma mavortium) 
10% inches long in its stomach. By the 30th May they had all 
disappeared, having gone north to Waterhen, or some other lake, 
Lorpreed: 
A common winter resident along the Pacific Coast. (Fannin.) 
Tolerably common in the Fraser valley below Yale in the spring 
and autumn migrations. A few remain all winter at Okanagan 
Eake, B.C. (Brooks:) 
Fairly numerous on Buffalo Lake, Alberta, July 7th, 1895 ; 
downy young taken at the same time. (J7ffie.) I have found 
this bird breeding at Shoal Lake, Manitoba. The nests found 
June 18th, 1894, mostly contained five eggs each. (Raine.) 
BREEDING Noress.— Early in June, 1894, a large colony of these 
birds was found breeding in Crane Lake, Assiniboia, about 100 
miles east of Medicine Hat. The colony was located in a large 
patch of bullrushes (Scirpus lacustris) about 100 yards from the 
shore and in about three feet of water. The eggs were placed 
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