. Nests and eggs of North American birds. Birds; Birds. NORTB AMERICAN 7. IiOON. , drab, spotted and blotched with a very dark brown. In shape they are narrowly oval, occasionally very much lengthened. The number laid is two, sometimes three; in size they vary from to long by to broad. Two eggs in my possession collected by Mr. McMillan measure , 8. YELLOW-BILLED LOOIT. Vritiator adamsii (Gray.) Geog. Dist—West- ern Arctic America and Northeastern Asia. This species, is also known as the White-billed Loon. The bill is of a light yel- lowish color
. Nests and eggs of North American birds. Birds; Birds. NORTB AMERICAN 7. IiOON. , drab, spotted and blotched with a very dark brown. In shape they are narrowly oval, occasionally very much lengthened. The number laid is two, sometimes three; in size they vary from to long by to broad. Two eggs in my possession collected by Mr. McMillan measure , 8. YELLOW-BILLED LOOIT. Vritiator adamsii (Gray.) Geog. Dist—West- ern Arctic America and Northeastern Asia. This species, is also known as the White-billed Loon. The bill is of a light yel- lowish color, and the general dimensions of the bird are greater than those of the last species. Less is known concerning the life history of this species than any of the Loons. The type specimen was secured on the Alaskan side of Bering Strait by Dr. Adams, of the British Navy, during the search for Sir John Franklin, and since that time, beyond the fact that the bird ranges over most of the circumpolar main- lands, little has been added to its history. It was first described in the Proceedings of the Zoological Society of London for 1859. Mr. John Murdoch (1885) records this Loon as a regular summer visitor at Point Barrow, and it probably breeds, though the -aggs were never found. L. M. Turner (1886) says that it. occurs sparingly at Saint Michael's. Mr. Nelson (1887) states that it is not a rare summer resident in certain localities about the head of Kotzebue Sound. The nesting habits and the eggs of this species are, in all probability, similar to those of the common Loon. Vrinator aiticus (Linn.) Geog. Dist—North- In North America migrating south in winter 9. BLACK-THBOATED LOON. €rn part of the Northern Hemisphere, to the Northern States/ The Black-throated Diver is a bird which is more or less common in the northern regions of the globe. It breeds commonly throughout the interior of Norway and Sweden, and far up into Lapland. In most parts of the British Islands this Loon is.
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