^art I, 



WATER AND SHORE BIRDS. 

 3. HORNED GREBE. 14 in. 



(Colymbus auritus.) 



Sooty black, extending in narrow line up hack of neck; 

 rest of neck, sides and upper breast rich chestnut; glossy 

 white below; head and chin black; buffy "horns" or crests, 

 slanting backward from the eyes; slender black bill, tipped 

 with yellow; eye, red; no tail. Winter: black parts sooty; 

 brown replaced by white; grayer below; crests and ruff less 

 conspicuous. Pied-billed Grebe. 



6. PIED-BILLED GREBE. 13X in. 



(Podilymbus podiceps.) 



Brownish-black, showing gray on head and neck; belly, 

 dusky white, otherwise brownish below; black throat-patch; 

 a conspicuous black band across bill. Winter: throat 

 whitish; browner below; no band on bill. Horned Grebe. 



7. LOON. 33 in. 



(Gavia imber.) 



Black, showing greenish on head and neck, spotted with 

 square or oval patches of white on back and wings and striped 

 with white in front of wings; white below; two conspicuous 

 white-striped bars across the black neck giving the effect of a 

 broad black collar; tail, very short; eye, red; large black bill, 

 long and pointed; dives and sinks like the Grebes; note, an 

 eerie, prolonged cry. 



