BIRDS OF MICHIGAN. 



Order PYIKJPODES. Diving Birds. 

 Suborder PODICIPEDES. Grebes. 



Family PODICIPID^E. Grebes; Hell-Divers. 



These curious birds are mostly confined to the water and are great divers said to 

 dodge even the rifle ball. 



Genus jECHMOPHORUS Coues. 



l-l-(845). -Echmophoras oceidentalis (Lawr.). Western Grebe. 



Very rare; probably accidental; one specimen killed near Lansing and now in the 

 collection of Mr. C. H. Davis; one specimen reported in catalogue of " Kent Scientific 

 Institute" byB. L. Mosley; included in "Butler's Birds of Indiana." 



Genus COLYMBUS Linn. 



2-2-(847). Colymbus holbcellii"(ffiei'n7i.). Red-necked Geebe; Holbcell's Grebe. 



Very rare; migrant; we have one from Saginaw bay; "one taken by Prof. Smith at 

 Hillsdale, in the spring of 1890, and now in the Hillsdale College museum" (F. M. 

 Falconer); taken by S. E. White off Mackinac Island; "taken occasionally at Sault Ste. 

 Marie" (C. S. Osborn). This species is included in the list of Fox and in that of Dr. A, 

 Sager of 1839. 



3-3-(848). Colymbus auritus Linn. Horned Grebe. 



Common throughout the state; " one taken Feb. 26, 1892, snow bound in Pittsford, 

 township, Hillsdale county " (A. H. Boies). Fall and spring; migrant; occasional in sum- 

 mer; " northern U. S." (Jordan); " Iron Mountain, May 18, 1890" (E. E. Brewster); "Ke- 

 weenaw Point," (Kneeland); breeds; nests in May, on bogs in marshes; "breeds in Wayne 

 county" (B. W. Swales); a fine male was taken by J. B. Purdy at Plymouth; "rare 

 transient in Kalamazoo county in spring and autumn" (Dr. M. Gibbs); " rivers of Mich- 

 igan" ( Davie's Nests and Eggs of North American Birds, p. 3); eggs, five to nine, immac- 

 ulate, yellowish, smooth; "breeds among the lakes and marshes of northern Indiana in 

 considerable numbers" (Butler's Birds of Indiana). 



