CHECK-LIST. 



Order PYGOPODES. Diving Birds. 



Suborder PODICIPEDES. Grebes. 



Family FODICIFIDiS. Grebes. 



Genus ^CHMOPHORUS Coues. 



y£chmophorus Coues, Pr. Ac. Nat. Sci. Phila. April, 1862, 229. 

 Type, Podiceps occidentalis Lawr. 



1. ^chmophorus occidentalis (Lawr.). 



Western Grebe. 



Podiceps occidentalis Lawr. in Baird's B. N. Am. 1858, 894. 

 ^chmophorus occidentalis Coues, Pr. Ac. Nat. Sci. Phila. 1862, 

 229. 



[B 704, C 608, R 729, C 845. J 

 Geographic Distribution. — Western North America, eastward 

 to Manitoba, south to central Mexico. 



Genus COLITMBUS Linn^us. 



Colymbus Linn. S. N. ed. 10, I. 1758, 135. Type, by elimination, 

 Colymbus cristatus Linn. 



Subgenus COLYMBUS. 



2. Colymbus holbcellii (Reinh.). 



Holboell's Grebe. 



Podiceps holbcellii Reinh. Vid. Med. 1853, 76. 



Colymbus holballii Ridgw. Water B. N. Am. II. 1884, 428. 



