. A history of the game birds, wild fowl and shore birds of Massachusetts and adjacent states, including those used for food which have disappeared since the settlement of the country, and those which are now hunted for food or sport, with observations on their former abundance and recent decrease in numbers; also the means for conserving those still in existence . billusually thrust into the feathers of the right breast or this position a bird will often keep its place, head to thewind, or whirl about by paddling automatically with both feetor with one alone. The food of the Horne
. A history of the game birds, wild fowl and shore birds of Massachusetts and adjacent states, including those used for food which have disappeared since the settlement of the country, and those which are now hunted for food or sport, with observations on their former abundance and recent decrease in numbers; also the means for conserving those still in existence . billusually thrust into the feathers of the right breast or this position a bird will often keep its place, head to thewind, or whirl about by paddling automatically with both feetor with one alone. The food of the Horned Grebes, while on salt water, ap-pears to be composed very largely of aninuil matter, shrimps,crustaceans, small fish and fish fry, but when on fresh waterthej^ appear to feed to a great extent on vegetable also take aquatic and terrestrial insects, leeches, smallfrogs, tadpoles and water lizards. Seeds and various portionsof grasses and water plants are eaten; also, all Grebes appearto eat feathers, either from their own breasts or from birds ofother species. These are found in their stomachs, particularlyin spring. 1 Dawson, William Leon, and Jones, Lynde: Birds of Ohio, 1903, p. 631. 46 GAME BIRDS, WILD-FOWL AND SHORE BIRDS. PIED-BILLED GREBE {Podilymhus jMcliceps).ComiDon or local names: Dipper; Didapper; Dabchick; Hell-diver; Adult \^ Summer. Length. —Varying from 12 to lo inches. Adult in Summer. — Above mainly dark grayish brown or brownish black;chin and middle of throat black; sides of head and neck gray; foreneck and breast brownish gray; belly silvery ash; iris brown and white;eyelids white; bill very pale bluish, crossed near the middle by a blackband; feet greenish black outside, leaden gray inside. Adult and Young in Winter. — Upper parts sooty brownish; throat whitish,with no black patch; fore neck, breast and sides brown; rest of underparts silvery whitish; bill dusky yellowish, without band. Younghave head streaked with whitish
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