THE SUBMERGED TENTH 
jiounmalse )iiere “they “were the only’ ‘Grebe; and 
nested abundantly, one pair to each of the little 
ponds, and several each to the larger ones, buildin 
floating nests out in the reeds, as usual. The 
Dabchick also nests in the East—from New England 
northward. It rarely, however, remains as far south 
as Massachusetts or Connecticut, so I have had to 
await its advent in September to our retired ponds. 
NEST OF HORNED GREBE, MAGDALEN ISLANDS 
By October, the Horned Grebe. looking utterly 
unlike the fine fellow of the sloughs—as is the case 
with the other Grebes as well—appears in the 
larger lakes and on the coast, followed by the larger 
Holboell’s Grebe. But none of them are more 
picturesque to me than the little brown Dabchick. 
I associate it with a lonely pond, in the crisp air of 
October, surrounded by forests made gorgeous by 
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