THE LOON. 897 
stretch of territory. Some of the lakes lying along the western foot of the 
Cascades contain submerged forests, and the Loon asks nothing better for a 
nesting site than the stub of a submerged tree broken off at the water line, 
Taken on Vancouver Isiand. Photo by W. I. Burton, 
NEST AND EGG OF LOON. 
upon which he may heap a miscellaneous mound of grass, moss, roots, and 
vines. The external diameter of this nest may be as much as three feet and 
its depth one; but another time the bird may deposit her eggs on a sandbar 
with little or no pretense at a nest. 
