Podilymbus podiceps. 
1875* ' 
Sept,23, One in a small fresh-water pond, I crept v;ithin 
good range and fired both barrels at him. Instead of 
diving he flapped off along the surface, making for the 
middle of the Pond, Whe^ at a safe distance he stopped 
and floating high on the water, and uttering a lov/ mel¬ 
low honk, almost like thatof a Goose, (Nantucket), 
