. A popular handbook of the birds of the United States and Canada . a whitish green, and appearing as ifsoiled with yellowish or brown. The Red-necked Grebe breeds from about latitude 45° to thehigher fur countries, but is rather uncommon in New England andthe adjacent provinces, where it occurs chiefly as a winter is quite abundant in Manitoba. In common with others of the family, this Grebe is an expertdiver. Often it will sink into the water without any apparent effort,though more generally it jumps forward, throwing the head into thewater, and the body into the air. It is an exp
. A popular handbook of the birds of the United States and Canada . a whitish green, and appearing as ifsoiled with yellowish or brown. The Red-necked Grebe breeds from about latitude 45° to thehigher fur countries, but is rather uncommon in New England andthe adjacent provinces, where it occurs chiefly as a winter is quite abundant in Manitoba. In common with others of the family, this Grebe is an expertdiver. Often it will sink into the water without any apparent effort,though more generally it jumps forward, throwing the head into thewater, and the body into the air. It is an expert and rapid swimmeralso, and all its movements on the water are extremely pursued, these birds invariably endeavor to escape by diving,though when on the wing they fly rapidly, their necks and feetstretched at full length. It is said that the female takes the newly hatched young uponher back, and swims with them in that position, feeding them, whilerating her own meal, on portions of the fish and vegetable matterwhich she gathers. VOL. II. — 25. PIED-BILLED GREBE. LITTLE GREBE. DABCHICK. CAROLINA PODICEPS. Char. Upper parts dusky, wings varied with ashy and white; underparts silvery white, mottled with dusky; breast washed with rufous ; chinand throat black; bill short and thick, of a bluish white color, with a blackband across the centre. Length about 14 inches. Nest. Amid the rushes at the edge of a pond or sluggish stream,—made of coarse herbage lined with grass; sometimes floating on the water,fastened to reeds. Eggs. 4-10 (usually 5); white stained with pale brown ; X The Pied-billed Dabchick is an exclusive inhabitant of theNorth American continent, proceeding north to breed as faras the remote fur countries of Upper Canada, a specimen hav-ing been killed on Great Slave Lake by the exploring partyof Captain Franklin. It arrives in the Northern and MiddleStates about the close of August, and is then seen residing inour small
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