The Birds of the Sand Dunes. 281 
when very little of interest can usually be seen in most places in this 
latitude, I quote the species I saw during my last three visits to the 
Dunes, on November 30th, December 21st and 27th, 1918, namely, 
Evening Grossbeaks, Pine Grossbeaks, Tufted Titmouse, Red-breasted 
Mergansers, Hooded Mergansers, Herring Gulls, Red-headed Woodpeck- 
ers, Chickadees, Blue Jays, Tree Sparrows, Juncos, Cardinals, White- 
breasted Nuthatches, Redpolls, Downy Woodpeckers, and Crows. Any- 
one familiar with bird conditions will see how difficult it would be to 
duplicate this list in most places. The writer deplores his lack of time 
to enter into the subject more fully, and hopes to be able to do so at 
some future time. In the meantime, everyone able to do so ought to 
lend his aid to the proposal to make a part of this alluring region a 
national park. Let it remain a monument of nature and a high school 
of and in nature forever! 
ORDER PyYGOPODES: Diving Birds. 
1. Colymbus auritus, Horned Grebe. A none too common migrant, 
especially in spring, and one may now and then breed in Long Lake, 
near Millers, or some others of the larger and not too: accessible lakes 
that are between the dunes or along the southern end of them. They 
are seen on Lake Michigan in April, and several have been seen or 
taken on Long Lake, April 3rd, 15th and 21st, 1916, and April 25th 
and May 5th, 1917. 
2. Podilymbus podiceps, Pied-billed Grebe. A common migrant and 
breeding species, nearly every pond or lake harboring one or several 
pairs. Late records are: April 1, 1916; June 2 and 6, 1916, nests with 
four to seven eggs found in Long Lake; July 18, 1911, family of old 
with young. 
No doubt, if a competent observer would stay here throughout at 
least one whole year and patrol the beach daily, he would also see Hol- 
boell’s Grebe and the Eared Grebe, but the writer knows of no late 
records. 
3. Gavia immer, Loon. Formerly, no doubt, a common breeder here, 
but is so no longer. This shy bird does not stay where the genus homo 
becomes abundant, as is now the case in the Dunes, but it still tarries 
here in migration. April 1, 1915, one swam about, a short distance from 
shore, at Tremont. 
What has been said in the case of the Grebes undoubtedly holds good 
for the Loons, too. The Red-throated Loon would probably also be seen 
by continuous observation. And this is still more true of the species of 
the next order, the Longipennes. Nearly all the far northern Jaegers, 
Gulls and Terns probably put in an appearance here, especially in long, 
severe winters and after strong northerly gales, but it takes more than 
ordinary fortitude to be out on the lake shore then. 
