. The oist . O 4) oi S o 2^ *« ore ^ SO. THE OOLOGIST 111. O o o >. (n O EPl 112 THE OOLOGIST they would return time after time to agood feeding ground even tliouglifired at again and again.—^Tlie Class-mate. W. A. Jose, Cal. We recently had offered to us twosets of four eggs of the Knot takensome years ago in Northeast Green-land within the Arctic Circle, whichshows how rare such specimens are.—Editor. The Loon—On Plum Lake, Wis. (Gavia Immer) Nest found July 6, 1914, on top ofold muskrat house, just a slight de-pression in top, eggs, two in number,half in water. Water about foo
. The oist . O 4) oi S o 2^ *« ore ^ SO. THE OOLOGIST 111. O o o >. (n O EPl 112 THE OOLOGIST they would return time after time to agood feeding ground even tliouglifired at again and again.—^Tlie Class-mate. W. A. Jose, Cal. We recently had offered to us twosets of four eggs of the Knot takensome years ago in Northeast Green-land within the Arctic Circle, whichshows how rare such specimens are.—Editor. The Loon—On Plum Lake, Wis. (Gavia Immer) Nest found July 6, 1914, on top ofold muskrat house, just a slight de-pression in top, eggs, two in number,half in water. Water about foot andhalf deep around nest in ten feet fromshore. Mother slid off nest when wewere still one-ouarter of a mile well incubated. One of theyoung Loons in the egg was makinga small noise like the mother, couldbe distinctly heard without holding tothe ear. Second nest found August 15, 1914,on island, in middle of lake, undersome bushes, just a slight depression,two very pretty but rotten must have killed or desertedfor some reason
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