1893
May 18
(no 9)
East Lexington, Mass.
  this another Greebe, her mate probably, answered her
toot several times with a precisely similar call and
showed himself near us, diving, however, as soon
as we caught sight of him. The female while crusing
back and forth sat high on the water and carried
her neck erect and stretched up to its full length.
She was in full breeding plumage with black throat
and gray neck.
  Faxon saw the first Greebes in this pond this
season on April the day after the ice went out!
Their presence is widely known to the people of
Lexington and to the passengers and trainmen of
the railroad which skirts the edge of the pond by
most of whom they are called "Dipper Ducks." They
are so difficult of access that they are probably 
reasonably safe from persecution. Faxon first
found them in 1891. Just when they began breeding
in this pond is unknown to me. 
[margin]Pied-billed
Greebes[/margin]