Catalogue of British Columbia Birds

Catalogue of British Columbia
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Catalogue of British Columbia Birds.
PROVINCIAL MUSEUM, VICTORIA B. C.

PREFACE.
The present list is intended to include all birds which have been so far
proven to occur in British Columbia.
I am fully aware of its incompleteness, and very much regret much of
its lack of more definite information regarding the distribution of
certain species, and with regard to that portion of the Province in north
and northeastern interior, which, I have no doubt, is a valuable field for
work.
Since the publication of the list of British Columbia birds in 1898 by
the late John Fannin, which contained 339 species and sub-species, and
with the information to hand, enables me to add to this 24.

I wish to extend my thanks especially to the following constant
observers for more or less extended local lists, notes and specimens:--A.
C. Brooks, Chilliwhack, Okanagan and Cariboo; Rev. J. H. Keen,
Queen Charlotte Islands and Metlakatla; Thos. Kermode, William Head
Quarantine Station; E. P. Venables, Yernon; Chas. de Blois Green,
Fairview and Keremeos.
I have also obtained valuable information from the check-list published
by the late John Fannin.
FRANCIS KERMODE, Curator Provincial Museum.
Victoria, B. C., August, 1904.

Order PYGOPODES. Diving birds.
Family PODICIPEDIDÆ. Grebes.
ÆCHMOPHORUS Coues.
1. Western Grebe.
Æchmophorus occidentalis (Lawr.).
A common winter resident along the coast of Vancouver Island and
Mainland. Mr. Brooks says a few remain all winter at Okanagan Lake.
COLYMBUS Linnæus.
2. American Red-necked Grebe. "Holboell's Grebe."
Colymbus holboelli (Reinh.).
A common winter resident along the coast of Vancouver Island and
Mainland. Winter resident on Okanagan Lake. (Brooks.) Not common
at Metlakatla. (Rev. J. H. Keen.) Breeds on many of the lakes along the
Cariboo Road above Clinton. (Fannin.)

3. Horned Grebe.
Colymbus auritus (Linn.).
A common winter resident on the coast, and very common in the straits
near Victoria, in April. Brooks reports it at Okanagan Lake all winter.
Breeds on the lakes from Okanagan to Dense Lake. (Fannin.) Rare at
Metlakatla. (Rev. J. H. Keen.)
4. American Eared Grebe.
Colymbus nigricollis californicus (Heerm.).
Taken at Kamloops, June, 1889. (Spreadborough.) Found breeding on
lakes at Kamloops; Catalogue of Canadian Birds. (Macoun.)
PODILYMBUS Lesson.
5. Pied-billed Grebe.
Podilymbus podiceps (Linn.).
Common resident on Vancouver Island; it breeds on lakes close to
Victoria. Common resident on Island and Mainland; breeds throughout
its range. (Fannin.)
Family GAVIIDÆ Loons.
GAVIA Forster.
6. Great Northern Diver. Loon.
Gavia imber (Gunn.).
Common resident throughout the Province; breeds on Vancouver Island
and Mainland.
7. Black-throated Loon.

Gavia arcticus (Linn.).
Taken at Burrard Inlet (Fannin), and at Dease Lake, Cassiar, by James
Porter.
8. Pacific Loon.
Gavia pacificus (Lawr.).
Not common; one specimen taken at Comox by W. B. Anderson, and at
Chilliwhack by Brooks; Victoria, May 13th, 1904, by Fred. Foster.
9. Red-throated Loon.
Gavia lumme (Gunn.).
I found this species quite common on Barkley Sound, V. I., April 19th,
1894, and fairly common near Esquimalt. Mr. Brooks reports it at
Chilliwhack.
Family ALCIDÆ. Auks, Murres and Puffins.
LUNDA Pallas.
10. Tufted Puffin.
Lunda cirrhata (Pall.).
Common along the coast of Vancouver Island, Queen Charlotte Islands
and Mainland; breeds on Bare Island, near Sidney, B. C.
FRATERCULA Brisson.
11. Horned Puffin.
Fratercula corniculata (Naum.).
Rare at Massett, Queen Charlotte Islands. (Rev. J. H. Keen.)

CERORHINCA Bonaparte.
12. Rhinoceros Auklet.
Cerorhinca monocerata (Pall.).
Coasts of Vancouver Island and Mainland. Breeds on islands in Gulf of
Georgia.
PTYCHORAMPHUS Brandt.
13. Cassin's Auklet.
Ptychorampus aleuticus (Pall.).
The entire coast line of