. Bird-lore . chester, N. Y. Black- Black-Chase, Red-throated Loon at Branchport, N. Y. The harbor at Branchport is cut offfrom the rest of Lake Keuka by a longsandbar through which a channel has beencut to enable the boats to enter and leavethe harbor. There is enough current flow-ing through the channel to keep it free slip by and swim rapidly to the otherend of the opening. It stayed in thechannel the next two days, but when Iwent down there on the nth it had leftand it was not seen again.—VerdiBurtch, Branchport, N. Y. Yellow-crowned Night Heron inNew Hampshire It may interest you to hear
. Bird-lore . chester, N. Y. Black- Black-Chase, Red-throated Loon at Branchport, N. Y. The harbor at Branchport is cut offfrom the rest of Lake Keuka by a longsandbar through which a channel has beencut to enable the boats to enter and leavethe harbor. There is enough current flow-ing through the channel to keep it free slip by and swim rapidly to the otherend of the opening. It stayed in thechannel the next two days, but when Iwent down there on the nth it had leftand it was not seen again.—VerdiBurtch, Branchport, N. Y. Yellow-crowned Night Heron inNew Hampshire It may interest you to hear that I sawa Yellow-crowned Night Heron feedingwith some Black-crowned Night Herons onthe mud flats in Portsmouth, N. H., July8, 1920. There was no question about itsidentity. The bird was in adult plumageand I had my glasses on it at fairly closerange. Finally it was scared up by apassing boat, and alighted in a pine treesome thirty feet from where I was sitting.—■John T. Coolidge, Jr., Portsmouth, N. RED-THROATED LOON Photographed by Verdi Burtch, Branchport N. Y., Feb. 18, 1918 from ice even in the very coldest weather,and I frequently find wild ducks there andoccasionally a Holboells Grebe. February 8, 1918, I found a Red-throated Loon in the channel and I wastold by some fishermen that it had beenthere for two or three days. It was ratherslow in its movements, did not dive at alland kept to the opposite side of the channelfrom me. There was a female Canvasbackand a female American Scaup Duck withit in the channel but they flew away as Iapproached. The Loon did not attemptto fly or to dive, but when cornered would Brave Quail It is interesting to note how the shybirds fear of man changes with theseasons. Early in July when I was hunt-ing along the edge of upper BarnegatBay, N. J., for good picnic ground, I hearda Quail give the bob-white call a littledistance away in the scattered pine went inland a few paces, then sat downbehind a tree and whistled the fe
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