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Podilymbus podiceps. 
Concord, 
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Mass. 
1898. 
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A few minutes later (just after sunrise) a Carolina Grebe 
Nov.26. 
came swimming down river skirting the cabin shore closely, and 
even entering the thicket of submerged bushes directly in front 
of the open door at which I was standing. I stepped out, 
clapped my hands and shouted, but the bird would not dive nor 
did it appear to notice me in the least for it kept steadily 
on its way chiefly within the belt of bushes through which it 
pursued a devious course moving very rapidly. Once or twice 
it stopped and preened its feathers or rose and flapped its 
wings. Had I not had such a good view of it I should have 
doubted its being a Grebe its behavior was so very peculiar. 
It was a young bird without trace of black on the throat. 
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East Lexington, Mass. Nesting of Pied-oilr Grebe. 
1899. 
Took the 8.34 A.M. train to East Lexington where I met 
May 6. 
O.A.Lothrop and A.H.Hathaway by appointment. They had brought 
their boat in a ’wagon and had launched it in the flooded mead¬ 
ow where we were to spend the forenoon looking for Grebes's 
nests. Within fifteen minutes from.the time we left the shore 
we found two, one with 7, the other with 8 eggs. Both were 
in thickets of Sweet Gale, within thirty yards of the rail¬ 
road embankment, anchored securely among the stems of the 
bushes but floating in clear water about two feet deep. 
The set of seven was uncovered, that of eight almost com- 
