18 BIRDS OF NORTH CAROLINA 



Range. North America and Eastern Asia; breeding from the extreme northern United States 

 northward; winters from Maine to North Carolina. 



Range in North Carolina. Coastal region in winter; occasionally inland. 



Holboell's Grebe is a winter resident as far south as South Carolina. It is most 

 commonly met with along the coast, although it is said to occur inland sometimes 

 during the spring migration. When alarmed it frequently swims with the body sub- 

 merged. It may readily be distinguished from the loons by its smaller size, except 

 in the case of the Red-throated Loon, from which it can be told in flight by the con- 

 spicuous white patch on the wings. Fishermen report that these birds are fre- 

 quently caught in shad nets in the Neuse River below New Bern. Specimens were 

 exhibited in the flesh at the New Bern Fair in 1892 and 1893 (H. H. Brimley). 

 Other records of its occurrence are those of Coues at Fort Macon in 1871, and at 

 Chapel Hill, where one was taken by J. J. Dunlap in 1877. 



FIG. 1. HOLBCELL'S GREBE. Winter Plumage. 



Two specimens in the flesh, both males, were received at the State Museum on 

 March 12, 1912. They were sent by Jesse Benjamin Etheridge of Manteo, Dare 

 County, who writes under date of March 9: "They were taken from a pound net 

 to-day near Roanoke Island. They are very rare in this section." 



2. Colymbus auritus (Linn.}. HORNED GREBE. 



Description: Ads. in summer. 'Top of head, hindneck, and throat, glossy blackish; lores 

 pale chestnut; stripe, and plumes behind eye, buffy ochraceous, deeper posteriorly; back and 

 wings blackish; secondaries white; foreneck, upper breast and sides chestnut; lower breast and 

 belly white. Ads. in winter and Im. Upperparts grayish black; underparts silvery white, 

 sometimes washed with grayish on the throat and breast; white of cheeks nearly meeting on 

 hindneck. L., 13.50; W., 5.40; Tar., 1.75; B., .90. 



Remarks. Differs from P. podiceps. in more pointed bill, more white in wing, and in winter 

 has no brown below. (Chap., Birds of E. N. A.) 



Range. Northern part of Northern Hemisphere; breeds from northern tier of States north- 

 ward; winters from Maine to Florida. 



Range in North Carolina. Coastal region in winter, common. Occasionally inland. 



These interesting birds are abundant winter residents in the bays and sounds of 

 our southern coast. They feed often within a few hundred yards of shore, and, 

 while not associating regularly in flocks, as many as several hundred may some- 

 times be counted within sight at one time. When not distrubed, they readily 

 become tame and will approach within a few feet of a boat at anchor or pass be- 



