. Nests and eggs of North American birds. Birds; Birds. 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 series vary from a whitish to a green- ish white, and there is also a great variation in size, as they measure from to long by
. Nests and eggs of North American birds. Birds; Birds. 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 series vary from a whitish to a green- ish white, and there is also a great variation in size, as they measure from to long by to broad. Mr. Wallace informs me that the number of eggs laid by this species ranges from two to five, and sometimes seven. 3. HOENED GBEBE. Cohjmhns aitritiis (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. tangdon makes note of its supposed nesting in Otta- wa county, Ohio.* It breeds commonly in the grass- Ijordered lakes of the Fur Countries. Dr. Coues says: "I found itbreeding 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 base of Turtle Mountain in company with P. ealifoniicus and the Mr. Thomas Mcllwraith records it breeding in all suitable places throughout Ontario, notably at St. Clair ;t Mr. Mcllwraith says: "The nest is so completely 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 the surface of the water, or, as it were, lik
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