CHECK-LIST/ 



Order PYGOPODES. Diving Birds. 



Suborder PODICIPEDES. Grebes. 

 Family PODIOIPID-ffi. Grebes. 



Genus JECHMOPHORUS Coues. 



^chmophorus CouES, Pr. Ac. Nat. Sci. Phila. April, 1862, 229. Type, 

 Podiceps occidcntalis Lawr. 



1. il^chmophorus Occident alls (Lawr.). 



Western Grebe. 



Podiceps occidcntalis Lawr. in Baird's B. N. Am. 1858, 894. 

 jEchmophorus occidcntalis CouES, Pr. Ac. Nat. Sci. Phila. 1862, 229. 



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



Habitat. Western North America, eastward to Manitoba. 



Genus COLYMBUS Lixn^us. 



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

 Colymbus cristatus Linn. 



Subgenus COLYMBUS. 



2. Colymbus holbcellii (Reinh.). 



HolboelPs Grebe. 



Podiceps holbocllii Reinh. Vid. Med. 1853, 76. 



Colymbus holbocllii RiDGW. Water B. N. Am. II. 1884, 428. 



^ For a detailed statement of tlie scope and plan of the present Check- List of 

 North-Arrerican Birds, see anteh, pp. 14, 15. 



