. North American birds eggs . Photo by J. A. Munro, Toronto. NEST AND EGGS OF nest is built on top of a Muslsrat house.] North American Birds |I>ark greenish The Yellow-billed Loim with the exception of its whiti-sh or yellowish bill inplace of the black, is practically otherwise indistinguishable from the commonLoon. It averages somewhat larger in size. This is one of the most northerlybreeding birds and it is only within a very few years that anything has beenlearned about the breeding habits. Their nesting habits and eggs are preciselylike the preceding except t
. North American birds eggs . Photo by J. A. Munro, Toronto. NEST AND EGGS OF nest is built on top of a Muslsrat house.] North American Birds |I>ark greenish The Yellow-billed Loim with the exception of its whiti-sh or yellowish bill inplace of the black, is practically otherwise indistinguishable from the commonLoon. It averages somewhat larger in size. This is one of the most northerlybreeding birds and it is only within a very few years that anything has beenlearned about the breeding habits. Their nesting habits and eggs are preciselylike the preceding except that the latter average a little larger. Size —Mackenzie River, Arctic America, June21,1898. Two eggslaidon islandin the river. Nest of twigs and grasses, six feet from the water. Collector,Capt. J. Black-throated Loon. Gavia (( Range.—From northern United States northward, breeding along the ArcticCoast. This species can be easily separated from the Loon by the gray crown andwhite streaks down the back of the neck. Its size, too, is about five inchesshorter. The nesting habits are the same as the Loons and the eggs
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