. Nests and eggs of North American birds [microform]. Ornithology; Birds; Ornithologie; Oiseaux. NORTH AMERICAN BIRDS. Other Grebes this species covers its eggs before leaving them with grass and vege- table matter gathered from around the bottom of the nest. A set of three eggs, col- lected by H. A. Wallace, in the marshes bordering Long Lake, in Manitoba, exhibit the following dimensions: , , Their color is a dull white, with the usual soiled surface. Eggs in a large scries vary from a whitish to a green- ish white, and there is also a great variation in size, as
. Nests and eggs of North American birds [microform]. Ornithology; Birds; Ornithologie; Oiseaux. NORTH AMERICAN BIRDS. Other Grebes this species covers its eggs before leaving them with grass and vege- table matter gathered from around the bottom of the nest. A set of three eggs, col- lected by H. A. Wallace, in the marshes bordering Long Lake, in Manitoba, exhibit the following dimensions: , , Their color is a dull white, with the usual soiled surface. Eggs in a large scries vary from a whitish to a green- ish white, and there is also a great variation in size, as they n oasure fron: to long by to broad. Mr. Wallacf^ informs me that the aumber of eggs laid by this species ranges from two to five, and sometimes seven. 3. HORNED GREBE. Colymhrn auritiis (Linn.) Geog. Dist.—Northern Hemisphere. Breeds from the Northern United States northward. The Horned Grebe is a generally diffused and an abundant species throughout North America. It is not uncommon in all suitable places, during the summer months, along the margins of the crystal lakes and rivers of Michigan, Wiscon- sin and Minnesota, and it Is -recorded as breeding sparingly in Northwestern Illinois. Mr. Frank W. £don makes note of its supposed nesting in Otta- wa county, Ohio.* It breeds commonly in the grass- bordered lakes of the Fur Countries. Dr. Coues says: "I found it breeding at vari- ous points in Northern Da- kota, as along the Red River, in the prairie sloughs, with Coots, Phalaropes, and various Ducks, and in pools about the ba'e of Turtle Mountain in company with P. califoniicus and the Mr, Thomas Mcllwraith records it breeding in all suitable places »'hioughout Ontario, notably at St. Clair ;t Mr. Mcllwraith says: "The nest is so completwy isolated that the young when hatched may be said to tumble out of the shell into the ; A curious habit of this and other Grebes is that of quietly sinking beneath t
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