Plate CCXLVIII. Male and Female.
Male with the bill shorter than the head, stout, deep, compressed,
pale blue, the upper mandible dusky along the ridge, the lower with a
black band beyond the middle; feet greyish-black; feathers on the
forehead with stiff enlarged shafts, as in the Rails; upper part of
the head and the throat black; neck and sides of the head light
greyish-brown; stiff edges of the feathers on the lower parts of the
neck greyish-yellow; back brownish-black, as are the inner
secondaries; outer secondaries light brown, with a reddish-white spot
on the end of the inner web; primaries light brown, dusky at the end;
breast silvery-white, abdomen brownish-grey, the sides mottled with
greyish-brown. Female without the black band on the bill, or the black
patch on the throat, but otherwise nearly similar. Young of both sexes
like the female.
_Male_, 14, 23.
Extremely common in autumn on all our Western streams, as well as
those of the Atlantic Districts. In winter in the Southern States, as
far as Texas. Breeds on the Wabash, and other streams of the interior,
to Maine. Migratory.
Podiceps carolinensis, Bonap. Syn. p. 418.
Podiceps carolinensis, Pied-bill Grebe, Swains. & Rich. F.
Bor. Amer. v. ii. p. 412.
Pied-bill Dobchick, Podiceps carolinensis, Nutt. Man. v. ii.
p. 259.
Pied-bill Dobchick, Podiceps carolinensis, Aud. Orn. Biog. v.
iii. p. 359; v. v. p. 624.