O GEOLOGICAL SURVEY OF CANADA. 



Breeding Notes. — A colony was breeding in a small pond 

 near Crane Lake, Assiniboia, in June 1894. The outer margin 

 of the pond was chiefly sedge (^Carex aristata) but within was a 

 growth of buUrushes {Scripus lacustris), and on the old stems of 

 these the nests were made. The floating nests were almost on a 

 level with the water, and not infrequently the eggs lay partly in 

 the water. No down or feathers was ever seen about a grebe's 

 nest. Each nest contained from three to four eggs, usually the 

 smaller number. Another colony was seen on a small lake in 

 July 1895, on the Milk River Ridge, Alberta. The nests were all 

 floating and the eggs could be easily seen from the shore, which 

 was high. {Macoun.) Breeding in numbers at Burnt Lake, 

 Alberta. A number of sets taken June 14th and 15th, 1896. 

 (Dippie.) 



I have found this species breeding abundantly at Long Lake 

 and Shoal Lake, Manitoba. On June 9th, 1894, I found a nest 

 containing as many as nine eggs at Shoal Lake, but six or seven 

 is the usual number of eggs laid. {Raine.) 



Breeding in colonies in sloughs in many parts of the prairie region 

 and British Columbia. Found breeding in lakes at Kamloops, 

 B. C, June i6th, 1889. {Macoun.) On June 13th, 1894, saw hun- 

 dreds of nests in a marsh at the west end of a small lake east of 

 Crane Lake, Assa. The nests were composed of rushes and mud, 

 floating amongst the rushes in about two feet of water. Most of 

 the n«sts had three eggs in them, others four, and some five, 

 while many had one or two. Evidently the sets were, in many 

 cases, not complete. (Spreadborough!) 



MUSEUM SPECIMENS. 



Our specimens are three in number, taken, one in Manitoba 

 and two at Kamloops, B. C, in June, 1889, by Spreadborough. 

 Three sets of eggs of five each taken at Crane Lake, June 14th, 

 1894, by Spreadborough. 



in. PODILYMBUS Lesson. 

 6. Pied-billed Grebe. Dab-chick. Hell-diver. 



Podilymbus podiceps (Linn.) Lawr. 1858. 



Occasionally obtained in the autumn in Nova Scotia. {Downs) 

 A common summer visitant in New Brunswick ; breeds. {Cham- 

 berlain) Rather common in Quebec. {Dionne ; Hall) Quite 



