888 THE AMERICAN EARED GRE 
IT has been a blazing day, for June, even in the Big Bend country, 
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but now the sun has sunk behind the Cascades and the earth has already 
i darkness. The modest chores 
rning and laid away under the 
ass cu o cushion tl] 
he bumps in 
night's slumbers 
lake, flip peb les at its unruffled 
race o resien ourselves > the 
peace Tt nehtt ill \os birds 
e properly tucked head under 
wing, and even the Nighthawks 
are less feve is] I tne. ( 
ertions but not so wit the 
ared Grebes t s the magn 
vat) rt « yrtichin mi nea in 
far trom the open water or tts 
veedy margins sounds the mel 
low poo bh p bh of these 
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cv llhic Swalhs Che sound 1s 
givel deliberately with a gentis 
rising inflection, but seems to 
7 anish into silence at the end 
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> with a sort of saber-like flour 
s]} Now wn wall some 
asa ¢ | ag l 
a ¢ 
—_— Rome more ardent than s 
nates pursts ito an exe ted 
a. A frig ri n TY 
_— p Phe birds spread freely 
- aut, il ve tiie lake irrespective of 
£5 - their nesting haunts, and = so 
¥; i a a) numerous are thev that at times 
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they maintain a chorus of the 
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3 volume and persistency of that 
MERIC Y EARI ERI - 
: ¥ furnished by a first-class trog 
pond in Marcel 
How handsome these creatures reall ire we shall see by the orn 
ng light, when a pai ot them. accepted lovers come imto our cove nm 
quest of provender There is no partiality shown by Nature to either 
ex in the wa Ot wedding garments The upperparts and head are ot 
hining black save for the fan-sl iped patches on the sides ot the tace 
which ire whitish iT {raw vellow ibove and rutescent below, while the 
icle of the bird > prominent nm a grebe, are pure rutous The eve 5 
