THE NEW LOON GROUP 
HE loon’s penetrating call, reported to sound like demoniac laughter, 
is well known to people visiting northern lakes. Few see the bird, 
however. If they do catch a brief glimpse of it, they decide that 
its neat tailor-like appearance, with head black, breast clear white, back 
closely polka-dotted with white, belies the weirdness of its call. Loons are 
noted for skill in diving and swimming, being able to proceed rapidly under 
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A PORTION OF THE NEW HABITAT BIRD GROUP 
several fathoms of water. It is said that they have been caught with hooks 
set for trout eighty feet below the surface in New York lakes. It is known 
that many loons winter at sea fifty miles or more from land. 
Two loons are shown in the new habitat bird group which is reproduced 
from studies made in June, 1909, on the New Hampshire shore of Lake 
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