PART II. 



ANNOTATED LIST OF THE BIRDS OF RHODE ISLAND. 



(i) 2. Colymbus holboellii (Reinh.) . Holbcell's Grebe. 

 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 1 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 ig, 1895. 



(October) November to April. 



(2) 3. Colymbus auritus Linn. Horned Grebe. Hell- 

 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.) . Pied-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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