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Concord, I,lass. 
As I was crossing Holden's meadow this afternoon I came 
April 15. upon a Horned Grebe, the first that I have ever found in Con¬ 
cord River. It had discovered rae and was swimming rapidly 
out into the rough water of the tidal current out it aid not 
seen to be very much alarmed and after I had worked the canoe 
close in shore it began diving for food springing nearly clear' 
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of fehe water like a Merganser and remaining beneath the sur¬ 
face for periods varying from thirty to forty-two seconds. 
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It remained in nearly the same place, an eddy very near shore 
but really in the river itself off the south end of Davis's 
Hill. I watched it for fifteen or twenty minutes through my 
nuptial 
glass. It was in the very fullest and richest plumage. Its 
head looked very large and fluffy - as large as a drake Whist¬ 
ler's - and the chestnut patch showed distinctly. The neck 
was slender and gracefully held. 
When I started towards it again it swam out into the 
