Pied-billed Dobchick

Pied-billed Dobchick [now Pied-billed Grebe]
Podiceps carolinensis, Latham [now Podilymbus podiceps]
Octavo edition, plate 483

“There go the little Dobchicks, among the tall rushes and aquatic grasses that border the marsh. They have seen me, and now I watch them as they sink gently backwards into the deep water, in the manner of frightened frogs. Cunning things!”

John James Audubon. Birds of America (New York: J.J. Audubon; Philadelphia: J. B. Chevalier, 1840-1844), vol. 7, p. 324.

View bird in National Audubon Society FIeld Guide for North American Birds.