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Range (Breeds in the interior)

Breeds in the interior of North America, from northern Minnesota northward; in winter migrates southward as far as South Carolina and Nebraska.

Washington, uncommon W. V., Sept. 30 to Mch. or Apl. Long Island irregular W. V., Oct. to Apl. Sing Sing, rare T. V., Oct. to Dec. Cambridge, casual. Nest, a mass of water-soaked, decaying vegetation floating among rushes in a slough, generally attached to its surroundings. Eggs, two to five, dull white, more or less soiled, 2.25 × 1.35. "In common with others of the family, this Grebe is an expert diver. Often it will sink into the water without any apparent effort, though more generally it jumps forward, throwing the head into the PIED-BILLED GREBE AND YOUNG.

GREBES. water and the body into the air. It is an expert and rapid swimmer also, and all its movements on the water are exceedingly graceful. When pursued, these birds invariably endeavor to escape by diving, though when on the wing they fly rapidly, their necks and feet stretched at full length" (Chamberlain). 3. Colymbus auritus Linn. HORNED GREBE. Ad. in summer.- Top of the head, hind neck, and throat, glossy blackish; lores pale chestnut; stripe, and plumes behind the eye, buffy ochraceous, deeper posteriorly; back and wings blackish; secondaries white; foreneck, upper breast, and sides chestnut; lower breast and belly white. Ad. in winter and Im. - Upper parts grayish black; under parts silvery white, sometimes washed with grayish on the throat and breast. L., 13.50; W., 5.40; Tar., 1.75; B., 90.