878 THE WESTERN GREBE 
rounds than may be found in Eastern Washington; but Puget Sound in 
winter furnishes these handsome Grebes an asylum second to none rhe 
birds begin to arrive at Semiahmoo Bay in somewhat desultory fashion 
late in September, but their numbers are rapidly augmented so that by 
the middle of October companies of several thousand may be encountered 
There is considerable freedom of movement among them, so that tomor 
ow’'s flood may succeed today’s scarcity for the eager student; but a large 
proportion of the birds seen spend the winter with us somewhere 
The fall arrivals 
are somewhat un 
sophisticated, and 
will permit us to 
drift up close 
enough to observe 
the cruel blood-red 
eye which ap 
propriately accom- 
panies the javelin 
beak The necks of 
these birds are very 
mobile and their 
heads are scarcely 
at rest for an in 
Stant, save as the 
| 
gaze is riveted by 
fear or momentary 
curiosity If fish 
ng is dull and the 
bse eT mn h 1s 
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