. Life histories of North American diving birds : order Pygopodes . s and gallinules. Mr. Arthur T. Wayne (1910) says of its breeding habits in SouthCarolina: This is an abundant permanent resident, breeding in fresh-water ponds orlarge rice-field reservoirs, where the water is generally from 4 to 10 feet birds are mated by the last of February, and the nests, which are com-menced about the middle of March, are composed of decayed vegetable matteranchored to buttonwood bushes or reeds. In the North Dakota sloughs, in 1901, we found the pied-billedgrebe nesting abundantly, in company w
. Life histories of North American diving birds : order Pygopodes . s and gallinules. Mr. Arthur T. Wayne (1910) says of its breeding habits in SouthCarolina: This is an abundant permanent resident, breeding in fresh-water ponds orlarge rice-field reservoirs, where the water is generally from 4 to 10 feet birds are mated by the last of February, and the nests, which are com-menced about the middle of March, are composed of decayed vegetable matteranchored to buttonwood bushes or reeds. In the North Dakota sloughs, in 1901, we found the pied-billedgrebe nesting abundantly, in company with canvasbacks, redheads,ruddy ducks, and coots, and examined a large number of nests, whichmay be considered as fairly typical of its normal nesting habitsthroughout the greater portion of its breeding range. The depth ofwater in which the nest is located varies greatly, but most of the nestsare placed in water not over 3 feet deep. The nests are usually an-chored to, or built up around or among, dead or growing reeds or U. S. NATIONAL MUSEUM BULLETIN 107 PL. 9. Steele County, North Dakota. A. C. Bent.
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