CHECK-LIST. 



Order PTGOPODES. Diving Birds. 



Suborder COLYMBI. Grebes. 



Family COLTMBID^. Grebes. 



Genus ^SCHMOPHORUS Coues. 



JEchmophoTus Coues, Proc. Acad. Nat. Sci. PhUa., 1862, 229. Type, 

 by orig. desig., Podiceps occidentalis Lawrence. 



.Schnidphorus occidentalis (Lawrence). Western Grebe. [1.] 



Podiceps occidentalis Lawrence, in Baird, Rep. Expl. & Surv. R. R. 

 Pac, IX, 1858, 894. (Fort Steilacoom, Washington.) 



Range. — Western North America. Breeds from British Columbia, 

 southern Saskatchewan, and southern Manitoba south to northern 

 California, Utah, and northern North Dakota; winters from southern 

 British Columbia south through California to central Mexico (Jalisco) ; 

 casual east to Nebraska, Kansas, Wisconsin, Minnesota, and Quebec. 



Genus COLTMBUS Linnaeus. 



Colymhus LiNN.«ius, Syst. Nat., ed. 10, I, 1758, 135. Type, by subs, 

 desig., Colymhus eristatus Linnaeus (A. O. U. Comm., 1886). 



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