BIRDS OF NEW YORK I03 



According to Mr F. S. Webster, he once saw a female of this species 

 which had been shot b}- a gunner on the Hudson river near Tro\', N. Y. 

 The first United States record which has come to my notice, is of the speci- 

 men which was shot in Sandusky Bay, Ohio, in 1880, sec Wheaton's Birds 

 of Ohio, page 565. There are three records for Lake Ontario, near Toronto. 

 A pair from this locaHty was sent to the Paris Exposition and a third s])cci- 

 men was captured off Mimico, May 22, 1889, recorded by Fk^ming [Auk, 

 17: 176]. 



Lawrence, in 1866 included this species in his list of Birds of New York 

 and Vicinity, but there is no specimen in his collection. 



Gavia stellata (Pontoppidan) 



(G a V i a I u m m e on plate) 



Red-throated Loon 



Plate 2 



Colymbvis stellatus Pontoppidan. Danske Atlas. 1763. 1:621 

 Colymbus septentrionflis DeKay. Zool. N. Y. 1844. pt 2, p. 286, fig. 300 

 U r i n a t o r 1 u m m e A. O. U. Check List. Ed. 2. 1895. No. 11 



stellata, Lat., starred or spotted 



Description. Summer plumage: Crown and back of the neck l)lack 

 with greenish gloss ; back of neck and siiles of breast sharply streaked with 

 white; upper throat and sides of head and neck bluish gray; a long triangular 

 patch of chestnut on throat; upper parts brownish black spotted with white; 

 ■breast and belly white; lower belh' and longer tail coverts duskv; l)ill and 

 feet blackish; iris red. Winter and immature: Crown and back of neck 

 ashy gray; upper parts dusk\' grayish profusely spotted with white; no 

 throat patch; under parts white; the bill of female and young considerablv 

 more slender. 



Length 25 inches; extent 44; wing 11.5; culmen 2; gape 3; hight of bill 

 at nostril .5; tarsus 2.75. 



Distinctive marks. See remarks on Common loon, page 99, 100; 

 also plate 2. 



Distribution. The Red-throated loon. Red-throated diver, Sprat loon, 

 or Scape-grace, is fairly common along the shores of Long Island and Lake 

 Ontario. It occurs principally as a transient visitant, but is often found 



