BIRDS FOUND NEAR SHORE OR IN BAYS Q9 
they seem to be standing on their heads and paddling 
their feet in the air. They soon become expert swim- 
mers and divers. Yet under the water as on it, lurk 
the Loon’s enemies. The large pickerel are fond of 
catching him by the feet, and great mud-turtles 
wait for a delicious piece of Loon \ 
meat. If he floats serenely on the 
surface, hawks and gulls are ever 
ready to swoop down upon  V 
him. Fortunate it is for the 
poor mother that she has 
but two to guard. | 
The peculiar cry of the -~3% 
Loon has been g =: 
well described 
by Mr. J. H. 
7. Loon. 
eS “ The young loons are taken into the water.” 
Langille: “ Beginning on the fifth note of the scale, 
the voice slides through the eighth to the third of 
the scale above in loud, clear, sonorous tones, which 
on a dismal evening before a thunderstorm — the light- 
ning already playing along the inky sky —are anything 
but musical. He has also another rather soft and pleas- 
ing utterance, sounding like who-who-who-who, the syl- 
lables being so rapidly pronounced as to sound almost 
like a shake of the voice —a sort of weird laughter. 
