. Michigan bird life : un elenco di tutte le specie di uccelli conosciute per verificarsi nello Stato insieme con un profilo della loro classificazione e un resoconto della storia della vita di ogni specie, con particolare riferimento al suo rapporto con l'agricoltura ... Testa composta da piume allungate, circa mezzo busto o cannella, il nero bruno riminatore; la parte anteriore e i lati del collo e i lati del petto arecastagno, il resto delle parti inferiori bianco setoso, la parte posteriore e grumo nero saturo. I Thesecondari sono per lo più bianchi e molto cospicui in volo; non c'è coda evidente. Afflitto, nero, con punta

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. Michigan bird life : a list of all the bird species known to occur in the State together with an outline of their classification and an account of the life history of each species, with special reference to its relation to agriculture ... . head consisting of elongated feathers, about half buff or cinnamon, the re-mainder brownish black; the front and sides of the neck and the sides of the chest arechestnut, remainder of the lower parts silky white, back and rump slaty black. Thesecondaries are mostly white and very conspicuous in flight; there is no evident tail. Billslender, black, tipped with yellow; iris red. Sexes alike. Winter plumage mainly grayishblack above and pure white below with no trace of buff or chestnut and little indicationof the hood or ruff. The slender bill and larger amount of white in the wings are thecharacters most readily separating it from the Pied-bill Grebe in the same plumage. Length, 12.50 to 15.25 inches; wing, 5.75. 3. Pied-billed Grebe. Podilymbus podiceps (Linn.). (6) Synonyms: Dabchick, Dipper, Water-witch, Hell-diver, Die-dapper or Dive-dapper, Carolina Grebe.—Colymbus podiceps, Linn., 1758.—Podiceps carolinensis, Lath., 1790, and most of the earlier American writers. Figures 1, 2, 3.. Fig. 1. Pied-billed Grebe.From Niittairs Ornithology (Chamberlain). LitUe, Browi WATER BIRDS. 39 The most common of the divers and readily separated from the pre-ceding species by its much thicker bill, which in summer is light colored, encircled by a black band, which however is lost in winter. Distribution.—British Provinces southward to Brazil, Argentine Repubhcand Chili, including the West Indies and Bermuda; breeding nearly through-out its range. In Michigan very generally distributed and absent only during thewinter months. We have no record of the occurrence of this species inDecember, January or February, but it has been taken every other monthin the year. It nests abundantly in every suitable place in the state, from the Ohio-Indiana lin

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