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is said " to attend the arrival of the sprats on the river Thames, 

 and is there called by the fishermen " Sprat Loon." Mr. Audubon 

 found it and the preceding species breeding at Labrador. 



Those procured in this vicinity are usually young birds — adults 

 seldom occurring. " The Red-throated Diver frequents the shores 

 of Hudson's Bay, up to the extremity of Melville Peninsula, and it 

 is also abundant on the interior lakes. It lays two eggs, on a little 

 down, by the margin of the water, which have a pale oil-green 

 color." — Fauna Boreali Americana, part second, page 479. 



GENUS PODICEPS — LATHAM. 



GREBES. 



[Bill about the length of the head, straight, compressed, hard-pointed, flat- 

 tened at the base ; head rather small, oblong, narrowed before ; eyes near 

 the bill ; neck slender and rather long ; body much depressed ; wings short, 

 naiTow ; tail a tuft of short feathers ; feet large, placed very far behind ; toes 

 four ; hind toe small — outer toe the longest ; anterior toes connected at the 

 base by a membrane, and furnished towards the end on both sides with a 

 broad lobe, much broader on the inner side — that of the middle the broadest ; 

 tsrsi extremely compressed.] 



PRODICEPS CORNUTUS— LINN. 



HORNED GREBE. 



Podiceps cornutus, Bonap. 



Podiceps cornutus, Horned Grebe, Prodiceps cornutus, Sw. & Rich. 



Horned Grebe, or Dobchick, Nuttall. 



Horned Grebe, Podiceps cornutus, Audubon. 



Specific Character — Bill black, the point yellow, from the corner 

 of the mouth to the end one inch and a quarter, length of tarsi one 

 and five-eighths. Adult male with the bill black ; a brown band 

 faom the bill to the eyes, which are red ; sides of the head tufted, 

 with a yellowish-brown band behind the eyes; nape and upper parts 

 blackish-brown; throat black ; fore part, sides of the neck and sides 

 of the body, reddish-brown; lower parts glossy white; vent brown- 

 ish-gray ; primaries brown ; a few of the secondaries white, with a 

 spot of brown toward their ends. Length fourteen inches and a 

 a half, wing five-eighths. Young, without the tufts on the sides of 



