. Birds of the United States east of the Rocky Mountains, a manual for the identification of species in hand or in the bush;. Birds; Birds. FAM. LXIV. GREBES 347 washed with chestnut. Adult in winter, a common, slightly crested, grayish-black-backed, silvery-white-bellied grebe, with some grayish tints on throat and breast. This and the pied- billed grebe (Xo. 6.) are in their winter dress much alike in appearance, and are often mistaken for each other. The horned grebe's bill is straighter and more slender than that of the pied-bill. "When ordinarily swimming, the feet struck out alterna
. Birds of the United States east of the Rocky Mountains, a manual for the identification of species in hand or in the bush;. Birds; Birds. FAM. LXIV. GREBES 347 washed with chestnut. Adult in winter, a common, slightly crested, grayish-black-backed, silvery-white-bellied grebe, with some grayish tints on throat and breast. This and the pied- billed grebe (Xo. 6.) are in their winter dress much alike in appearance, and are often mistaken for each other. The horned grebe's bill is straighter and more slender than that of the pied-bill. "When ordinarily swimming, the feet struck out alternately, and the progres- sion was steady; but sometimes both feet struck together, and then the movement was by great bounds, and was evidently calculated to force the bird over an expanse of very weedy water, or through any tangle of weeds or rushes in which it might have found ; (E. E. Thompson.) Length, 121-151; wing, 5| (oi-5f); tarsus, If; culmen, f. North America; breeding from the northern range of states northward, and wintering south to about the Gulf of Please note that these images are extracted from scanned page images that may have been digitally enhanced for readability - coloration and appearance of these illustrations may not perfectly resemble the original Apgar, Austin Craig, 1838- [from old catalog]. New York, Cincinnati [etc. ] American book company
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