(J THE lUKDS Ol' SPRINGFIELD AND VICINITY. 



2. Colymbus holboellii ( Reinh. ). Holboells Cjkehe. 

 Chiefh- an uiKX)nnn(Mi winter visitor, but Dr. J. A. Allen 

 records its capture in Sprino^field, the third week in May, in 

 full breeding plunias^e. The .specimen in the Science buildino;, 

 Si')rin,u;field, was taken alive in Otis a few winters a^^o and sent 

 to Fore.st Park, where it .soon died. Two have been taken at 

 Belchertown. ( vSee Birds of Amherst, page 45. ) 



;v Colymbus auritus I/inn. Horned Grebe. vSome 

 autumns the xoung of this .species are cjuite common and I 

 have seen them in small flocks; the adults are rarely here. 

 Their food usually consists of frogs, .small fish and aquatic 

 in.sects, but .some years ago, while attracting wild ducks by 

 baiting with corn, I f(n;nd that one of the.se grebes had devel- 

 oped a decided ta.ste for this grain, and when taken its craw 

 was filled with it. A pair were killed here in full breeding 

 ])lumage about June i. (See Catalogue of the Birds Found 

 at vSpringfield. ) 



6. Podilymbus podiceps (I^inn. ). Pied-billed 

 Grebe. A rare sununer resident and a conunon .spring and 

 autumn visitor. 



7. Gavia iinber iGunn. ). Loon. A not unconunon 

 .spring and fall visitor; Dr. J. A. Allen reports it as breeding 

 here occa.sionalh', l)ut that was nearly forty years ago. I have 

 not known of its ])resence here in summer for a long time. 



II. Gavia lumme iGunn. ). Ri:d-throated Loon. 

 Rare spring and fall visitor. 



31. Uria lottivia (Ivinn. ). Brunnich's Murre. For 

 .some unknown cau.se, during the last five or .six years, repre- 

 sentatives of this species have paid us a number of vi.'^its; 

 previous to thai time there ai:)pears to be no record of its 

 capture here, and now it is far from being common. I took 

 one November 30, 1S99, and the same day one was .shot in 

 Berk.shire county. (See Birds of Berkshire County, page 53.) 



