. A catalogue of the birds of Indiana. Birds. 16 blades of 'saw-grass' in a little open bay, leaving its circumference entirely free; re- move a mass of wet muck from its rounded top and you expose seven or eight soiled brownish-white ejgs, resting in a depression, the bottom of which is less than an inch from the water; the whole mass is constantly damp. * * The anchor- ing blades of coarse saw-grass or flags, being always longer than is necessary to reach the bottom, permit of considerable lateral and vertical movement of the nest, and so eflectually provide against drowning of the eggs by a
. A catalogue of the birds of Indiana. Birds. 16 blades of 'saw-grass' in a little open bay, leaving its circumference entirely free; re- move a mass of wet muck from its rounded top and you expose seven or eight soiled brownish-white ejgs, resting in a depression, the bottom of which is less than an inch from the water; the whole mass is constantly damp. * * The anchor- ing blades of coarse saw-grass or flags, being always longer than is necessary to reach the bottom, permit of considerable lateral and vertical movement of the nest, and so eflectually provide against drowning of the eggs by any ordinary rise of water level, such as frequently occurs during the prevalence of strong easterly winds on the ; Suborder CEPPin. Looxs and Auks. Family Loons. Genus URINATOR Loon. 5. Urinator imber (.Gtmn.). Loos; Great Northehn Diter. A regular migrant throughout the State in some numbers; sometimes they are winter residents, and throughout the northern part of the State they sometimes are found in summer. Mr. J. W. Byrkit writes that they are permanent residents in Laporte County. I have no knowledge of their breeding within the State, although they will probably be found so to do. Mr. Byrkit informs me that these birds are sometimes caught by fishermen, near Michigan City, " in gill nets and on hooks in thirty fathoms of ; 6. Urinator lumme {Gunn.). Loon. A rare winter resident and perhaps occasional migrant. February 23, 1885, a bird of this species was shot from a flock of five, near Brookville. Mr. Charles Dury, Cincinnati, Ohio, writes me of a specimen killed near Chalmers, a few years ago. Mr. C. A. Stockbridge reports it a^ a rare visitor in the vicinity of Ft. Wayne. Reported by Mr. Ruthven Deane from English Lake, May 11, Please note that these images are extracted from scanned page images that may have been digitally enhanced for readability - coloration and appearance of these illustrations may
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