. A popular handbook of the ornithology of eastern North America [microform]. Ornithology; Ornithology; Game and game-birds; Game and game-birds; Water-birds; Water-birds; Ornithologie; Ornithologie; Gibier; Gibier; Oiseaux aquatiques; Oiseaux aquatiques. LOON. 389. t black, vvii!. I'liie stripes; to 23 inches, variation are of a 'ake or â¢ts; average le United e climates found in coasts as f the Ob. land, Ice- e lakes of the most northern of the States, and probably ?'n the inland seas of the St. Lawrence, along the whole Canadian line, they pass the ])eriod of reproduction. They have been kn
. A popular handbook of the ornithology of eastern North America [microform]. Ornithology; Ornithology; Game and game-birds; Game and game-birds; Water-birds; Water-birds; Ornithologie; Ornithologie; Gibier; Gibier; Oiseaux aquatiques; Oiseaux aquatiques. LOON. 389. t black, vvii!. I'liie stripes; to 23 inches, variation are of a 'ake or â¢ts; average le United e climates found in coasts as f the Ob. land, Ice- e lakes of the most northern of the States, and probably ?'n the inland seas of the St. Lawrence, along the whole Canadian line, they pass the ])eriod of reproduction. They have been known to breed as f;ir south as the Fame Isles, on the coast of Northumberland, along with the Eider Ducks, with which they also associate on the shores of Labrador. In the Hebrides they are common in the summer season, as well as in Norway, Sweden, and Russia, from all which countries they seldom migrate to any consiacrable distance, being only accidental passengers on the coists of the ocean; the young only are seen, and rarely, on the lakes of Germany, France, and Switzerland, but in those regions the old are unknown. In the United States, from the superior severity of the winters, th' young, and even occasion- ally the old, are seen to migrate nearly, if not quite, to the estuary of the Mississippi. The Loon, cautious, vigilant, and fond of the security at- tending upon solitude, generally selects, with his mate, some lonely islet, or the borders of a retired lake far from the haunts of men; here, on the ground, contiguous to the water, they construct their rude and grassy nest. About the nth of June, through the kindness of Dr. T. W. Harris, I received three eggs which had been taken from the nest of a Loon, made in a hummock, or elevated grassy hillock, at Sebago Pond, in New Hampshire. These were about the size of the eggs of a Goose, of a dark, smoky olive, coarsely blotched nearly all over with umber-brown spots. The males, after the period of incubation, secede from t
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