/ A .- -A - H'.w ' 



r.-turn t n, aii<l then struck out in a: ii 



In froxsiii^ ,,\er an island. 1 found a the Mile-winged 



au-l l'i. i I. ft the neftt, UN H)IO\VM Ky th* 



l.roken < .shell >rds I Hushed a Wilson '- pha 



the four e^s \\--ie "M tin- )>int <>f hatching. so I did 



take tli. -in 1 startled a l-itt-TM from a clump of rushes, 



( | attempt^ t-i \va-l.- t-. tli.- s| M ,t l.ut the water 



deep. ami caiiir o\.-r my l>nu top bootH. At 1 "g- 



r.l t. r.-arli tin- >]>-.t \\ h.-i'i- tin- l.itt.-rn had tlown from, l.ut 



was li.saj>|>oint-l to tiii-1 no signs of a newt Later I Hushed a 



littl.- ln-ou ii CIMII. l>urk- and c..ts k.-j.t flying out of tin- 



rushes, and tin r.-ntn- >f tin- lak. ua- .|ott-d all ov-r with 



\\at.-r l.irdx I found it a ditfic-ult ta.sk wading uUmt, a> ii, 



s..Mi- places tin- \vat-r was d.-.-j>. and how I loii^t-d fora boat, 



that 1 coul-l -,-t al'out .-asily. I mad.- up my mind that 



wh.-n in-xt I visit. -d Ln^ L-ik.-. I would 1'ring a canoe along 



with in.-. 



I no\\ cam.- to a jtlaci- wlu-iv black terns swarnu-d, and I 

 could s,.,- a numlM-r of .-rirs laid <ui tin- floating drl.ris. l.ut 1 

 could not r.-ach th.-m. a> a .!.-]> channel of water ten feet wide 

 interv.-ned lM-twe.-n thi> s| M .t and whei-e I stood Up to the waist 

 in water, so I had to -atisfy mys.-lf with gazing on the eggs. 



My n.-xt Hnd worthy of note was a nest of the horned grebe, 



known in Kuroj..- as th. Scla\-ouinn gn-U'. It contained ti\.- 



eggs, and the ne.st. as usual, was a damp structure of decayed 



the eggs were covered with grass and aquatic 



plants. 



This sprri.-s i> the only^r-l.e found in Iceland, where U 

 common summer resident. It breetls at Rice Lake and St 

 (Mail- Hats, and other marshy places in ( Intario. 



The eared and pied-hilled ^r<-\- als., l,r.--d at In^' L-ik. 

 and on \\\"^l of the lakes and sloughs in Manitoba. 



All the grebes are expert di\ers and swimmers they sink 



U-low the sin lace of the water almost without makinga ripple 



Th.-y use their win^s under \\.it- i ami when chased in a boat 



th.-\ sink, and when next they appear they are far 



At the Mash of a gun they immediately disappear under 



