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nearly as well as the old one. Common throughout Labrador ; 
one nest found, July 25th, 1896, on Clearwater Lake, containing 
two eggs in an advanced state of incubation. (Spreadborough.) 
This bird breeds at the south end of Lake Manitoba. I have 
also received the eggs from Morley in Alberta. It breeds com- 
monly on the islands in the Muskoka Lakes, Ontario. A clutch 
of two eggs in my collection was taken on an island in Lake 
Donaldson, near Buckingham, Quebec. The eggs were taken 
June 24th, 1895, by Mr. Warwick. This bird is a late breeder. 
(Raine.) 
The nest of this species, if nest it can be called, is only a 
slight hollow in the earth or ground withina short distance of the 
water's edge. One found on the 21st June, 1897, at Lake of the 
Woods, was within six inches of the water’s edge. It was only a 
slight hollow in the sand, and the two eggs were placed therein. 
(G. R. White.) 
The loon is a common summer resident in Ontario. It still 
breeds in many of the retired lakes, and a pair or two frequent 
the River St. Lawrence for this purpose between Kingston and 
Brockville. I have found many of their nests and noticed that 
they return to the same locality year after year even when their 
eggs have been repeatedly taken. The situation chosen varies ; 
sometimes it is on the shore of some out-of-the-way island, two 
or three feet from the water’s edge. Several nests I found con- 
sisted of a mass of weeds and bullrushes piled up in three feet of 
water, so that a boat could be rowed alongside. They are very 
punctual in their time of laying ; in one locality in the county of 
Leeds, Ont, I have found the two eggs four years in succession 
on the 23rd, the 24th, the 25th and the 24th of May. On the 
River St. Lawrence a little later, from the Ist to the 6th of June. 
By the great resemblance each set of eggs has borne to the pre- 
‘ceding one, I have no doubt but that the same pair of birds 
returns to the same locality year after year. They generally 
arrive at the end of April and leave again in September or October. 
I noticed two pairs of these birds at the Magdalen Islands in 
June 1897, and think they breed on the fresh-water ponds of the 
eastern islands. (Rev. C./. Young.) 
Found breeding at Lake St. Clair and in the small lakes in the 
Bruce Peninsula; also at the Pelee Marsh, Lake Erie. Nest at 
