CHECK-LIST. 



ORDER PYGOPODES. DIVING BIRDS. 



SUBORDER PODICIPEDES. GREBES. 

 FAMILY PODICIPIDJE. GREBES. 



GENUS -S3CHMOPHORTJS COUES. 



^Echmophorus COUES, Pr. Ac. Nat. Sci. Phila. April, 1862, 229. 

 Type, Podiceps occidentalis LAWR. 



1. -ffichmophorus occidentalis (LAWR.). 



Western Grebe. 



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

 sEchmophorus occidentalis COUES, Pr. Ac. Nat. Sci. Phila. 1862, 

 229. 



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



GEOGRAPHIC DISTRIBUTION. Western North America, eastward 

 to Manitoba, south to central Mexico. 



GENUS COLYMBUS LINNAEUS. 



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

 Colymbus cristatus LINN. 



SUBGENUS COLYMBUS. 



2. Colymbus holbcellii (REINH.). 



HolbcelPs Grebe. 



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



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



