. . the 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 animal matter, shrimps,crustaceans, small fish and fish fry, but when on fresh waterthey appear to feed to a great extent on vegetable also take aquatic and terrestrial insects, leeches, smallfrogs, tadpoles and wate
. . the 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 animal matter, shrimps,crustaceans, small fish and fish fry, but when on fresh waterthey 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, Lyndc: Birds of Ohio, 1903, p. 631. 46 GAME BIRDS, WILD-FOWL AND SHORE BIRDS. PIED-BILLED GREBE (Podilymbus podiceps).Common or local names: Dipper; Didapper; Dabchick; Hell-diver; Adult in Summer. Length. —Varying from 12 to 15 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 and throat with brownish. Field Marks. — This bird has a more brownish cast than our other Grebes;the brownish upper breast distinguishes it from the Horned Grebe,but the best mark is the short and thick bill. In the breeding seasonthe black throat patch and band on the bill are noticeable. This b
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