. Nests and eggs of North American birds [microform]. Ornithology; Birds; Ornithologie; Oiseaux. NESTS AND EGGS OF vicinity of the nesUi, and they Bwam away with their heads and necks above water, making a kind of cackling noise. In their habits they resimble the Loon, diving or swimming under water with the greatest ease; and, when on the wing, they fly with won- derful rapidity for birds of their nature. The eggs of this speciec are from 2 to 5 in number, ellip- tical oval in shape, very pale bluish green in color; and, like all Grebes' eggs, the surface is stained a light brown, or very muc
. Nests and eggs of North American birds [microform]. Ornithology; Birds; Ornithologie; Oiseaux. NESTS AND EGGS OF vicinity of the nesUi, and they Bwam away with their heads and necks above water, making a kind of cackling noise. In their habits they resimble the Loon, diving or swimming under water with the greatest ease; and, when on the wing, they fly with won- derful rapidity for birds of their nature. The eggs of this speciec are from 2 to 5 in number, ellip- tical oval in shape, very pale bluish green in color; and, like all Grebes' eggs, the surface is stained a light brown, or very much soiled by contact with the decomposed vegetable matter of the nests. Mr, Walter E. Bryant, of Oakland, Gala., has a set of 5 eggs in his collection, which were taken at Washoe Lake, Nevada, In the latter part of May. These measure as follows: 59x39,63x33, , 60::38, 'nun.* Three sets ia my collection, two of five eggs find one of four, taken Ijy Mr. Stecbins, measure: , 'i7, , , ; , , , ; , , , 2.'. The bird known as probably the female of JE. its habitat is given as The bird and its eggs are. 1. Wbstbrn Grbbb. Clark's Grebet i WeKtem North America, chiefly along the Pacific coant recorded as averaging smaller than types of occidentalic. 2. (ELL'S GBEBE. Colymbus liolbosUii (Relnh.) Oeog. Dlst.—North. America at large, including Greenland. Also Eistern Siberia, and southward to Japan. Breeds in high latitudes, migrating south in winter. In the large bodies of wator, the little baycus and sloughs, rivers and gras£:y pools from Northern Maine to Greenland; from t;.<e swamps of the Red River Valley of the North, and again, westerly and aorthward to the margins of the placid lakes that bordor the great Yukon River in Alaska, and be;: ond, this Grebe makes its sum- mer home.§ In the Fur Countries it breeds in lonely
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