AMONG THE WaTER-FOWL 
found to be the common species of the poplar 
growth, with a few Sparrow Hawks, Song and 
White-throated Sparrows, Mourning Warblers, and 
doubtless other small birds, sprinkled in. No more 
of the Grebes’ eggs, I fond: had hatched, but the 
loose egg-shells were gone, as was the youngster. 
One of the shells I ee about ten yards from the 
nest, foatime 
yi ty? Ni a | | among the reeds, 
iW " MAA) whither the old 
xi ni. Et 
Wa * \y} bird, no doubt, 
? SVB had carried it. 
Thre Vatcere 
Grebe seems not 
very common in 
Dakota, though I 
met it sparingly 
in the larger fresh 
water lakes. But 
everywhere in the 
rairie sloughs 
NEST OF PIED-BILLED GREBE, NORTH DAKOTA one meets the 
familiar Pied-billed and Horned Grebes, as well as 
the Eared. I did not find these first two in colonies, 
but each pair nesting by itself, usually well out in 
the deepest water. One day I was exploring a large 
slough in a boat that I had carted miles for the pur- 
pose, when I came upon a small Grebes’ nest with 
one egg, out in nearly open water, anchored to a 
few stems of grass. Quite near it was a Horned 
Grebe that probably was the owner. The wind 
was violent, and the waves were breaking over the 
nest all the time. Probably other eggs had been 
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