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ANNOTATED LIST OF THE BIRDS OF RHODE ISLAND. 
(1) 2. Colymbus holbcellii (Reinh.). Horpc@.y’s Gress. 
Red-necked Grebe. American Red-necked Grebe.— An irregular 
winter visitor. It is found in Narragansett Bay, though more 
commonly along the coast. Mr. Newton Dexter writes that in 
the Bay it is “common in October.” Mr. G. W. Field writes 
that he “took two in the Seekonk River near Red Bridge in 
November, 1885.” On account of its often being mistaken, by 
the local gunners, for the Red-throated Loon (Gavia lumme) 
and vice versa, notes in regard to it are somewhat untrustworthy. 
In Lawton’s List! he says that “the American Red-necked 
Grebe....is very rare.” Two birds were seen, and one was 
shot, by Mr. Owen Durfee on the ice in the Taunton River on 
February 19, 1895. 
(October) November to April. 
(2) 3. Colymbus auritus Linn. Hornep Grese. Hel/- 
diver, Little Diver, Tinker Loon, Tinker.— A common winter 
resident along the ocean cliffs, rocky shores, beaches and in Nar- 
ragansett Bay. It is without doubt our most common Grebe. In 
the late spring, for a week or so before going north, they seem to 
move off shore about a mile, and change of plumage at this time 
also takes place. Mr. J. M. Southwick tells me that Mr. Benja- 
min Earle, of Providence, took a Horned Grebe in full plumage 
in the latter part of May in Narragansett Bay. 
October to April 24. 
(3) 6. Podilymbus podiceps (Linn.). Prep-BILLED Grebe. 
Dabchick.— An uncommon summer resident, and a somewhat 
irregular visitant in the fall, found only to our knowledge, in the 
‘Lawton’s List, p. 17, 
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