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this species may be found along the coast somewhere every 

 winter, escaping detection from its close resemblance to the 

 Loon. Most of the eggs of this species in collections are from 

 Norway, Sweden, Lapland, Finland and northern Scotland, 

 sets from North America being rare. I have two eggs which 

 were taken at Lulea, Lapland, June 16, 1897, from a nest at 

 the water's edge on the shore of a pond. These eggs are olive 

 brown, spotted with black, the spots being most frequent and 

 heaviest at the larger end. These eggs measure 2.96 x 1.95 

 and 2.96 x 1.96 inches. The habits of these birds seem to be 

 rather unknown but cannot be expected to differ from those of 

 their near relative. 



11. Gavia lumme (Gunn.). Red-throated Loon. 



Plumage in summer adults : f oreneck chestnut, head and neck ashy or 

 plumbeous, sometimes white streaked ; upper parts fuscous, white spotted ; 

 breast and belly white. Adult and immature winter plumage : throat and 

 f oreneck white ; back spotted with white. Wing 10.50 to 11.50; culmen 

 2.20; tarsus 2.68. 



Geog. Dist. — Northern part of northern hemisphere, occurring regularly 

 in winter southward along our eastern coast to North Carolina ; breeding 

 range from New Brunswick, Quebec and Manitoba northward. 



County Records — Cumberland; common in migration (Brown, C. B. P. 

 p. 36) ; a pure white individual was taken in Casco Bay in December, 1900, 

 and seen by me at John Lord's, (Knight). Hancock; fall to spring along 

 the coast, (Knight). Kennebec ; accidental, (Dill). Knox; migrant, (Rack- 

 liff). Penobscot; immatvu-e birds quite often, (Hardy). Sagadahoc; from 

 late fall to spring, (Spinney) ; a pure white one, save for a few brown spots 

 on the back, was taken at Small Point, June 22, 1896 (Spinney, Me. Sp. Jan., 

 1897, p. 21). Somerset; Mr. C. W. Savage has a specimen taken at Flag- 

 staff Pond in the fall of 1896, (Knight). Waldo; one seen near Islesboro on 

 August 16 and September 22, 1900, by G. C. Shattuck, (Howe, J. M. 0. S. 

 1901, p. 14) ; fall to spring along the coast, (Knight). Washington ; com- 

 mon, (Boardman). York; (Butters). 



Though general along the coast from fall to spring, and 

 even occasionally reported in the summer, this species does 

 not breed in Maine. Occasional specimens are reported about 

 the ponds and lakes in fall, or more rarely in spring. A set 

 of two eggs taken at Myvatu, Iceland, June 2, 1897, were 



