North American Birds Eggs. 



to eight bluish white eggs with the usual chalky and discolored appearance. 

 The breeding season is at its height early in June, or earlier, in the southern 

 portionsof its range. Size 1.75x1.20. Data.— Artesian, S. Dakota, June 21, 1899. 

 Nest of rushes, floating in three feet of water. Large colony in a small lake. 

 Collector, F. A. Patton. 



5. St. Domingo or Least Grebe. Colymbus domiidcus brachypterus. 



Range. — Southern Texas and Lower California southwara to South America, 

 breeding throughout its range. 



The Least Grebe is by far the smallest of the 

 Grebes in this country, being but 10 in. in length; 

 it can not be mistaken for any other, the 

 Eared Grebe being the only other species of this 

 family found in the same localities during 

 the summer. These little Grebes nest very abund- 

 antly along the Rio Grande Valley in Texas, the 

 nesting season lasting from the latter part of May 

 until well into December. 



Their nests are Hoating piles of grass and weeds 

 upun which they lay fnjm three to five chalky 

 white eggs, which are always discolored, sometimes to a deep chocolate hue. 

 These eggs average a great deal darker in colcjr than do any of the other 

 Grebes. In a series of fifty sets fully half were a rich brown tint. Size 1.40x.95. 

 Data.— Brownsville, Texas, May 2H, 1900. 5 eggs. Xest of weeds and trash 

 floating on a small fresh pond. Collector, Frank B. Armstrong. 



(Deep buff or rich brown.] 





NEST AND EGGS OF PIED-BILLED GREBE. 



