350 THE ZOOLOGIST. 



love-journey to the nest, which was at a considerable distance 

 off? There are, I believe, some — possibly many — peoples 

 amongst whom the ceremony of marriage consists in (or includes) 

 the bride and bridegroom sitting or standing together, either 

 side by side or opposite each other, and holding or grasping 

 something between them. The object, whatever it is, is sym- 

 bolical of the married state. In every essential except the clear 

 consciousness that they were doing so (to how great an extent 

 this was present or wanting it would, perhaps, be difficult to 

 say), these Grebes, as it appears to me, went through a marriage 



ceremony. 



(To be continued.) 



