1874 * 
Podilyrnbus podieeps. 
Maine (La ke Urr.b a go g ). 
1 
Sopt. 3.: 
A young bird still wearing the white plumage on the 
head and neck v/as shot and brought to rne. 
« 14. 1 
1 
One which I chased for sometime:, in the i?iver at 
■ length took v/ing, rising without the slightest difficulty 
and Sloaring the surface in the distance of a few yards 
although there was not so much as a breath of wind. It 
flev/ about six hundred yards and alighted again. 
1880. : 
SSopt.l7i 
. One at the foot of B.Meariov/ in the broo^,;at this 
season only tv/o or three wide and a fev/ inches deep. 
Although v;e nearly caught it it would not take wing. 
1881. 
July 22.' 
The headof an adult Pied-billed Greebe, v/ith one of 
. i eggs, was sent me by Steve T^orse, who shot the bird 
on the nest and broke all the eggs but one. The nest 
v/as in the Cranberry Bog near fUchardson Lake. 
1882. 
Oc t.8-22 
Common during the early part of my stay. Usually 
found in shallov/ water near reeds aud lily-pads close 
in shore. 
