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Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. 1913. Not illustrated. Excerpt: ... Part I Catalogue OF THE Birds of Connecticut Catalogue of the Birds of Connecticut. Order PYGOPODES. Diving Birds. Suborder COLYMBI. Grebes. Family COLYMBID^l. Grebes. Colymbus holbcelli (Reinhardt). Holboell''s Grebe. A rare winter resident of Long Island Sound from November to March; very rare inland. Earliest record. Portland, Oct. 30, 1895. Latest record. Portland, May 3, 1889. Connecticut records. Linsley recorded this species from Stratford ;1 Oct. 19, 1860, Hartford, one shot (reported by Dr. Crary) ;1 Feb. 23, 1875, Saybrook, one taken (J. H. S.); Feb. 21, 1885, New Haven (G. E. V., in Peabody Museum) ; spring, 1887 (?), Milford, one taken (in coll. of L. C. S.); May 3, 1889, one; April 14, 1894, one; Oct. 30, 1895, one, Portland (in coll. of J. H. S.); Nov. 16, 1895, Stony Creek, female taken (E. M. Cooper, in coll. of L. B. B.); Feb. 20, 1899, Bridgeport, young male taken (J. H. Canfield, in coll. of Mr. Beers) ; Feb. 27, 1902, Saybrook, one taken (J. N. C.); Jan., 1904, New Haven (in coll. of L. C. S.); April, 1904, Kent, one shot (recorded by H. K. J.);2 Jan. 26, 1905, Danbury, one picked up exhausted and kept some time (Bristol, recorded by J. C. A. M., now in coll. of L. B. B.)'' Feb. 6, 1908, Gaylordsville, one found alive (G. A. Clute, in coll. of L. B. B.); Dec. 28, 1909, one; Oct. 15, 1910, Portland, one (in coll. of J. H. S.). Colymbus auritus Linnaeus. Horned Grebe. Formerly a common fall migrant and winter resident on Long Island Sound from October to May ;1 much rarer in recent years. Never common in the interior of the state. 1 Merriam. Birds of Conn., p. 137. ''Job, The Sport of Bird Study, p. 288. Latest record. New Haven, April 23, 1887 (L. B. W.) ; Branford, April 30, 1888 (W. H. Gardner). Inland records. Portland, Oct. 10, 1892,...
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