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Coot was the deepest, at 2 feet from the surface. Dr. Roberts 

 says that these birds were not quite dead when taken. Mr. 

 David H. Scott, Iowa City, Iowa, says that he once saw a 

 wounded Merganser drop very close to him in the rushes, and 

 that he and his friend went after the bird in a boat when it 

 dived. On coming to the place where it was last seen, it was 

 finally found clinging to a weed at the bottom. Mr. Robert 0. 



Adult in summer. 



PIED-BILLED GREBE (Podilymbus podiceps). 

 (From "Game Birds, Wild-Fowl and Shore Birds.") 



This species, when wounded, sometimes goes under water and stays there to die, either by hold- 

 ing on to vegetation or by pushing under it. 



Morris, Springfield, Massachusetts, reports that he has seen a 

 wounded Wood Duck clinging to weeds at the bottom of water 

 two or three feet in depth. His dog finally brought in the bird. 

 Mr. Albert J. B. Kirn, Solomon, Kansas, says that he has 

 known a Pied-billed Grebe to cling with its feet to weeds under 

 water when wounded and pursued. Mr. Willard E. Treat, 

 Silver Lane, Connecticut, reports that he has found a Blue- 

 winged Teal dead in a marsh with one foot clinging to a stalk 

 of wild oats, which, however, was broken off and lying beside 



