. Among the water-fowl : observation, adventure, photography : a popular narrative account of the water-fowl as found in the northern and middle states and lower Canada, east of the Rocky Mountains . small birds, sprinkled in. No moreof the Grebes eggs, I found, had hatched, but theloose egg-shells were gone, as was the of the shells I found about ten yards from the nest, floatingamong the reeds,whither the oldbird, no doubt,had carried it. This largeGrebe seems notvery common inDakota, though Imet it sparinglyin the larger freshwater lakes. Buteverywhere in theprairie sloughs NE
. Among the water-fowl : observation, adventure, photography : a popular narrative account of the water-fowl as found in the northern and middle states and lower Canada, east of the Rocky Mountains . small birds, sprinkled in. No moreof the Grebes eggs, I found, had hatched, but theloose egg-shells were gone, as was the of the shells I found about ten yards from the nest, floatingamong the reeds,whither the oldbird, no doubt,had carried it. This largeGrebe seems notvery common inDakota, though Imet it sparinglyin the larger freshwater lakes. Buteverywhere in theprairie sloughs NEST OF PIED-BILLED GREBE, NORTH DAKOTA ^ ^1 one meets thefamiliar Pied-billed and Horned Grebes, as well asthe Eared. I did not find these first two in colonies,but each pair nesting by itself, usually well out inthe deepest water. One day I was exploring a largeslough in a boat that I had carted miles for the pur-pose, when I came upon a small Grebes nest withone egg. out in nearly open water, anchored to afew stems of grass. Quite near it was a HornedGrebe that probably was the owner. The windwas violent, and the waves were breaking over thenest all the time. Probably other eggs had been 30. The Submerged Tenth washed out, for it was late in the nesting season—■nearly the last of June. This must be a very com-mon occurrence, for the Grebe will not learnwisdom. Yet even though the creature itself besubmerged, it is hardly to be supposed that sub-merged eggs will hatch, or that the deluge here in
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