. The birds of California : a complete, scientific and popular account of the 580 species and subspecies of birds found in the state. Birds; Birds. The American Eared Grebe Texas, northern New Mexico, northern Arizona, and southern California. Winters chiefly west of the Rocky Mountains from Washington to Texas, Guatemala, and south- ern Lower California. Distribution in California.—Breeds abundantly on Mono Lake, and commonly east and north of the Sierras at various stations. Also casually or in small numbers throughout the central valley and at Elizabeth Lake, Bear Lake, San Jacinto Lake, an
. The birds of California : a complete, scientific and popular account of the 580 species and subspecies of birds found in the state. Birds; Birds. The American Eared Grebe Texas, northern New Mexico, northern Arizona, and southern California. Winters chiefly west of the Rocky Mountains from Washington to Texas, Guatemala, and south- ern Lower California. Distribution in California.—Breeds abundantly on Mono Lake, and commonly east and north of the Sierras at various stations. Also casually or in small numbers throughout the central valley and at Elizabeth Lake, Bear Lake, San Jacinto Lake, and formerly near Escondido. Winters commonly on lakes and reservoirs or estuaries and bays, less commonly along the water front. Authorities.—Heermann (Podiceps calif amicus), Proc. Acad. Nat. Sci. Phila., vol. vii., 1854, p. 179 (orig. desc.; Calif.); Grinnell, Univ. Calif. Pub. Zool., vol. v., 1908, p. 51 (desc. breeding colony on Bear Lake, San Bernardino Mts.). CHRISTENED califomicus by Heermann, who first distinguished the American Eared Grebe from that of the Old World, the species finds, nevertheless, its center of distribution much further north. If the follow- ing paragraph retains, therefore, a certain northern flavor, it may claim authenticity in the face of meager California notes. It has been a blazing day, for June, even in the Big Bend country (in Washington), but now the sun has sunk behind the Cascades and the earth has already begun to exhale the fresh odors of recovering darkness. The modest chores of camp-life are done, kindling split for morning and laid away under the flap of the tent, a fresh covering of rye grass cut to cushion the bumps in the ground which gradually revealed themselves in last night's slumbers; and now we may lounge by the brink of the lake, flip pebbles at its unruffled face, or resign ourselves to the peace of night- fall. Most birds have properly tucked head under wing, and even the Nighthawks are less feverish in their exertions;
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