The Submerged Tenth 



Journals. Here they were the only Grebe, and 

 nested abundantly, one pair to each of the little 

 ponds, and several each to the larger ones, building 

 floating nests out in the reeds, as usual. The 

 Dabchick also nests in the East — from New England 

 northward. It rarely, however, remains as far south 

 as Massachusetts or Connecticut, so I have had to 

 await its advent in September to our retired ponds. 



NEST OF HORNED GREBE, MAGDALEN ISLANDS 



By October, the Horned Grebe, looking utterly 

 unlike the fine fellow of the sloughs — as is the case 

 with the other Grebes as well — appears in the 

 larger lakes and on the coast, followed by the larger 

 Holboell's Grebe. But none of them are more 

 picturesque to me than the little brown Dabchick. 

 I associate it with a lonely pond, in the crisp air of 

 October, surrounded by forests made gorgeous by 



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