THE 



BIRDS OF MONTREAL 



BY 



ERNEST D. WINTLE 

 1896 



LIST. 



Order PYGOPODES. Diving Birds. 

 Suborder Podicipedes. Grebes. 

 Family Podicipidce. Grebes. 

 Genus jEchmophorus. Coues. 



1. Western Grebe. ^E. occidentalis. (Lawr.) 



" Accidental Visitant," rare. One was purchased 

 in the Montreal market by the late Mr. William 

 Couper, formerly a taxidermist here, and is men- 

 tioned in " Canadian Birds. M. Chamberlain. 

 1887." A pair were shot at the mouth of the 

 North Nation River previous to 1881. The skins 



