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ORDER PYGOPODHS. 



Di\ rx(i BiRHs. 



Family PODICIPID.E. Gkehes. 



Genus COLYMBUS Linn. 



C0LYMBU5 AURITUS Linn. 

 Horned Grebe. 



Adult in siiinniir : Upper parts, including Ijack. wings, 

 top of the head and back of the neck, glossy black : throat 

 l)lack : front of the neck, breast, and sides of the body rufous 

 chestnut: rest of under parts white: wings dusky black; 

 secondaries wliite : lores dull chestnut: the two small tufts 

 of feathers at the sides of the occiput brownish butt. 



Adult in -Lvintcr and iniinaturc : Head and back gray- 

 ish, under parts white, usually tinged with gray on tJie breast 

 and lower throat : no tufts on sides of the head in winter 

 plumage. 



Length, 13.40: Wing. 5,40 : Tarsus, 1.70 : bill. .85 to .95. 



The Horned Grebe is not uncommon on the 

 Atlantic coast durintj^ the migrations, breeding 

 from tlie Northern United ^States northward and migrating in winter south to 

 Florida and the Gulf vStates. 



The nest is constructed on floating debris : eggs, foiu" to sex'en. dtdl 

 white or yellowish white. 



Range: ••Northern Hemisphere: breeds from I'nited States northward." 



(A.o.u.) 



