ENGOE ODES. DIvING BirRbs. 
Fami_ty I. PODICIPIDAS. GREBEs. 
I. AXCHMOPHORUS Couves. 1862. 
1. Western Grebe. 
Echmophorus occidentalis (LLAWR.) 
Accidental in Quebec. Mr. Cowper states in Canadian Spo: ts- 
man, Vol. II, that he has seen several specimens on the market 
in Montreal. (Dionne.) Some time before 1881 a pair was shot 
at the mouth of the North Nation river, Ont. (Ottawa Naturalist, 
Voll @ceasionally Yshot in> the “Red iRiver valley,” Man: 
One pair seen at alittle lake west of Macleod, Alta. (W. Saunders.) 
Our knowledge of the migration of the western grebe is still 
incomplete, but on May 8th, 1891, specimens were shot at Banff 
in the Rocky mountains. The next year it reached Indian Head, 
500 miles to the east, on May 12th. At that time the stomachs of 
the birds shot contained nothing but feathers. Two days later 
one was shot that had an amphibian (Amblystoma mavortium) 10¥% 
inches long in its stomach. By the 30th May they had all disap- 
peared, having gone north to Waterhen, or some other lake, to 
breed. : 
Going west from Portage la Prairie in Ig06 I did not note it 
until we reached Touchwood hills but from that to Edmonton it 
was noted in all the larger waters. I am of opinion that many of 
the Manitoba and eastern records would on investigation prove 
to be the Holbcell grebe. There appeared to me, however, to bea 
peculiar weirdness about the call of this bird, noted and identified 
as the western grebe, which readily distinguished it from the 
succeeding species. (Geo. Atkinson.) 
A common winter resident along the Pacific coast. (Fannin.) 
Tolerably common in the Fraser valley below Yale in the spring 
and autumn migrations. A few remain all winter at Okanagan 
Take, B.C. (Bvooks.) Six were seen on Bayne lake, near Elko, 
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