DAB (5 BIRDS OF BERMUDA. 
Rev. H. B. Tristram’s collection. One was killed by Captain Tolcher, 
Fifty-sixth Regiment, near Spanish Point, on the 1st February, 1855; 
it was in company with three or four others. Mr. Bartram has two 
specimens of different dates. 
Genus PODILYMBUS, Less. 
185. Podilymbus podiceps, (Linn.) Lawr. Pied-billed Grebe; Water- 
witch; Dabchick. 
Colymbus podiceps, Linn., Gm. 
Podilymbus podiceps, Lawr., Coop. & Suck., Coues, and of most late U. S. 
writers. 
Sylbeocyclus podiceps, Bp. 
Colymbus ludovicianus, Gm. 
Podiceps ludovicianus, Lath. 
Podiceps carolinensis, Lath., Bp., Sw. & Reich., Nutt., Aud., Gir., Max., and 
of writers generally. 
Sylbeocyclus carolinensis, Bp. 
Podilymbus lineatus, Heerm. 
Length, about 13; wing, 5; tarsus, 1.50; bill, .75. 2 
Hab.—North, Central, and part of South America; West Indies 
(Coues). 
Three are recorded in “The Naturalist in Bermuda”—two obtained 
in October, 1849, and one by Major Wedderburn, in February, 1850. 
Mr. Hurdis once found a perfect skeleton of this bird by the side of a 
pond. Tolerably abundantinthe winter of 1874~75, especially at Trott’s 
and Basden’s Ponds. The way in which these birds can sink under 
water, without leaving aripple behind, is truly marvellous, and entitles 
them fully to the name “‘ Water Witch.” They are very shy, but I once 
surprised one asleep on a flat stone, as much to my astonishment as to 
the bird’s, All the specimens I saw were in immature plumage, want- 
ing the black bar on the bill and the black throat-patch. 
Family ALCIDZ. 
Genus MERGULUS, Ray. 
186. Mergulus alle, (Linn.) Vieil. Little Auk; Sea-Dove; Dovekie. 
Alca alle, Linn. 
Mergulus alle, Vieil., Aud. 
Uria alle, Temm., Bp., Aud. 
Mergulus melanoleucus, Ray. 
Alca candida, Brunn. 
Alca alce, Gm. 
Length, 74; wing, 44; tail, 14. 
Hab.—Circumpolar portion of both the Western Palerctic and East- 
ern Nearctic Regions, being driven southward to continental Europe 
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