THE AMERICAN FEARED GREBE. 889 
fiery red, so bright as to appear to impart a glow to the face visible to 
the naked eye at forty paces. 
The nesting season is apparently a little later than that of other grebes; 
but to observation its nesting is hopelessly entangled with that of the Pied- 
billed Grebe. The eggs of the two species are absolutely indistinguishable. 
The nests, if any constant difference exists, are usually placed more in the 
open and in deeper water. 
Several seasons ago we camped on a tiny island in Moses Lake where 
Eared Grebes were common and Pied-bills unthought of. The nests were 
sturdy platforms of bulrushes, clean-looking and fresh, floating securely in 
Brook Lake. Photo by the Author. 
THE NESTING SWAMP. 
ten feet of water. We accepted a set of eight in the name of science and 
thanked our lucky stars that there was no suspicion of plebeian strain thereto 
appertaining. But great was our disappointment in the morning upon seeing 
a Pied-billed Grebe clad in the smug humility of Uriah Heep, taking furtive 
observations offshore. 
Better luck awaited us last year at Brook Lake where the whole Eared 
population, after weeks of dallying, fell to and nested. They colonized in 
the deep water on the lakeward side of the swamp and so thickly that one 
might touch a dozen nests with the paddle while the boat was at rest. We 
counted eighty occupied nests and as many more not quite finished in the 
space of an acre, on the 12th of June. 
