Podilymbus podiceps . 
Concord, Mass, 
1898, As I approached Beaver Dan Rapid I saw two Pied-billed 
Oct,7, Grebes at the entrance to the lagoon on the right. * x a x * * 
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The two Grebes, meanwhile (I had been following a Fulica which 
I saw a moment after I had seen the Grebes), had passed me 
under water and gone to the head of the lagoon where I cor¬ 
nered them and had a fine view of them through the glass. They 
kept diving and reappearing in nearly the same place evidently 
hoping that the pickerel weed concealed them. At length they 
swam out past me under water. 
Nov,5. Take wing. 
At noon two Grebes paid us a visit, doubtless the same 
as those seen yesterday. They approached the cabin within 30 
yards coming from across the river and swimming very fast with 
heads and necks erect. Suddenly both took wing rising from 
the water with slight difficulty. One led the other by twen¬ 
ty yards or more having started first. It alighted in the 
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middle of the river and, just as its companion was passing over % 
it, at a height of six or eight feet, it dived making a great 
splashing. As nearly as I could make out all this was done 
in play for neither bird showed any signs of having seen us 
although we were standing, at the time, in the open door of 
the cabin. 
