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We watched them every day, and they were getting more like the old 

 ones right along. 



They were in the lake about two months, during which time they did not 

 try to get out again. 



About two weeks before they left, one old one disappeared and did not come 

 back ; at least we did not see it any more. 



I used to go down and sit on the bank and watch the old Loons feed the 

 young. They would dive and catch something, come up and call until one 

 of the young would come and get it. 



Finally they began to fly. They would rise and fly about two feet above 

 the water all around the lake. 



It was about three days after they began to fly that we noticed they had 

 left. It was then about the middle of August. 



We heard some Loons after that and also saw them flying over, but do not 

 know whether it was the same ones or not. 



I would like very much to hear of the experience of others. — Mildred L. 

 Bull (age 13), Stacy, Minnesota. 



[It is rare to have the good fortune this observer had, of watching the nesting habits 

 of the Loon. All of the observations described are particularly interesting to those who 

 must depend upon books for their knowledge of the downy young of this species. In 

 Lincoln Park, Chicago, the writer saw the Loon every spring, and occasionally the Red- 

 throated Loon in the fall. During migration, the Loon at this point, came into the park 

 lagoons familiarly, where it associated with the Horned Grebe, Red-breasted Merganser 

 Duck, Herring, Ring-billed and Bonaparte's Gulls. It was a great treat to the city- 

 dweller to see these species close at hand. Unless disturbed they spent most of the day 

 in the lagoons, but at sound or sight of danger they made their way out on the friendly 

 bosom of Lake Michigan. — -A. H. W.j 



