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IS said " to attend the arrival of the sprats on the river Thames, 

 and is there called by the fishermen "Sprat Loon." Mr. Audubon 

 found it and the preceding species breeding at Labrador. 



Those procured in this vicinity are usually young birds — adults 

 seldom occurring. " The Red-throated Diver frequents the shores 

 of Hudson's Bay, up to the extremity of Melville Peninsula, and it 

 is also abundant on the interior lakes. It lays two eggs, on a little 

 down, by the margin of the water, which have a pale oil-green 

 color." — Fauna Boreali Americana^ part second, page 479. 



GENUS PODICEPS — LATHAM. 



GREBES. 



[Bill about the length of the head, straight, compressed, hard-pointed, flat- 

 tened at the base ; head rather small, oblong, narrowed before ; eyes near 

 the bill ; neck slender and rather long ; body much depressed ; wings short, 

 narrow ; tail a tuft of short feathers ; feet large, placed very far behind ; toes 

 four ; hind toe small — outer toe the longest ; anterior toes connected at the 

 base by a membrane, and furnished towards the end on both sides with a 

 broad lobe, much broader on the inner side — that of the middle the broadest ; 

 tsrsi extremely compressed.] 



PRODICEPS CORNUTUS— LINN. 



HORNED GREBE. 



Podiceps comutus, Bonap. 



Podiceps comutus. Horned Grebe, Prodiceps comutus, Sw. & Rich. 



Horned Grebe, or Dobchick, Nuttall. 



Homed Grebe, Podiceps comutus, Audubon. 



Specific Character — Bill black, the point yellovv^, from the corner 

 of the mouth to the end one inch and a quarter, length of tarsi one 

 and five-eighths. Adult male v/ith the bill black ; a brown band 

 faom the bill to the eyes, which are red ; sides of the head tufted, 

 with a yellowish-brown band behind the eyes; nape and upper parts 

 blackish-brown; throat black; fore part, sides of the neck and sides 

 of the bod)'-, reddish-brown ; lower parts glossy white ; vent brown- 

 ish-gray ; primaries brown ; a few of the secondaries white, with a 

 spot of brown toward their ends. Length fourteen inches and a 

 a half, wing five-eighths. Young, without the tufts on the sides of 



