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BRONX REGION. Very rare or casual; three records, 

 November 4, 1905 (W. H. Wiegmann and Hix) ; October 15, 

 1910 (Wiegmann and Hix) ; April 4, 1917 (L. N. Nichols). 

 New Jersey. Rare in Newark Bay (Urner); casual inland, 

 occurring chiefly in April. Recorded from Morristown (R. C. 

 Caskey) and Boonton (April 1, 1916, R. C. Murphy). 



ENGLEWOOD REGION. Casual visitor on the Hudson River, 

 March 8, 1914 (Griscom, J. M. Johnson, S. V. LaDow) and 

 Overpeck Creek, April 2 to 7, 1916 (Rogers and Weber). A 

 single bird on the Nordhoff Ice Pond, June 10 to 24, 1905 

 (Hix). 



HORNED GREBE (Colymbus auritus) 



The Horned Grebe is one of the most characteristic winter 

 birds of our outer beaches, and rare indeed is the day spent 

 along the ocean front at this season that one or more of these 

 little birds is not observed diving "like a flash" either in the 

 surf or just outside it. Its small size and slender head, neck, 

 and bill will distinguish it from any other water-bird except 

 the Pied-billed Grebe. The latter has no white patch in the 

 wing, no white on side of head, neck, and breast, and the bill 

 is much stouter with a curved culmen. 



A common migrant and winter resident along the coast, 

 sometimes positively abundant. Occasional on the larger 

 bodies of water inland, but less so than formerly, at least on 

 the Hudson River. Arrives about October 15 and leaves the 

 first week in May. 



Long Island. Common winter visitant, abundant in migra- 

 tion, September 23 to May 30; casual in summer. 



ORIENT. Common winter resident, September 23, 1918 to 

 May 25, 1906. Average, October 12 to May 10. Casual in 

 summer, Orient, East Marion, and Gardiner's Island. 

 MASTIC. Fairly common winter visitant. 

 LONG BEACH. Common winter resident, October 1, 1918 

 (Bicknell) to May 19, 1921 (Bicknell); casual August 3, 1922 

 (Bicknell). 



New York State. Regular off Staten Island, formerly com- 

 mon on the Hudson, now rare except near Ossining where it is still 

 a common transient (Courtenay Brandreth); noted there as late 

 as May 24, 1922 (Brandreth). 



