CHECK-LIST. 1 



ORDER PYGOPODES. DIVING BIRDS. 



SUBORDER PODICIPEDES. GREBES. 

 FAMILY PODIOIPID^J. GREBES. 



GENUS JECHMOPHORUS COUES. 



jEchmophorus COUES, Pr. Ac. Nat. Sci. Phila. April, 1862, 229. Type, 

 Podiceps Occident alis LAWR. 



1. 2Echmophonis occidentalis (LAWR.). 



Western Grebe. 



Podiceps occidentalis LAWR. in BAIRD'S B. N. Am. 1858, 894. 

 jEchmophorus occidentalis COUES, Pr. Ac. Nat. Sci. Phila. 1862, 229. 



[B 704, C 608, R 729, C 845.] 

 HABITAT. Western North America, eastward to Manitoba. 



GENUS COLYMEUS LINN^US. 



Colymbus LINN. S. N. ed. 10, I. 1758, 135. Type, by elimination, 

 Colymbus cr is tat us LINN. 



SUBGENUS COLYMBUS. 



2. Colymbus holbcellii (REINH.). 



Holbcell's Grebe. 



Podiceps holbcellii REINH. Vid. Med. 1853, 76. 



Colymbus holbcellii RIDGW. Water B. N. Am. II. 1884, 428. 



1 For a detailed statement of the scope and plan of the present Check- List of 

 North- American Birds, see anted,, pp. 14, 15. 



