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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 learn 
wisdom. Yet even though the creature itself be 
submerged, it is hardly to be supposed that sub- 
merged eggs will hatch, or that the deluge here in 
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ANOTHER PIED-BILLED GREBE'S NEST WITHIN A FEW RODS OF PRE-= 
CEDING, CONTAINING NINE EGGS, AS COVERED BY THE OWNER. 
BY Ac ¢. BENT 
progress was altogether pleasing to the otherwise 
contented “ Water-witch,” unless for the fact that 
the surviving egg was much cleaner than usual. 
It is no easy matter to identify scattered single 
nests of the smaller Grebes. Seldom, except in 
colonies, have I been able to see a Grebe actually 
on the nest. A very common and well-known 
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