8 NESTS AND EGGS OF 



similar to a Grebe's nest, and often it is a mere hole in the turf in 

 which the eggs are deposited. Sometimes the depression is found to 

 be scantily lined with feathers. One hundred and five nests observed 

 by Mr. MacFarlane, in the vicinity of Fort Anderson, contained no 

 more than two eggs each.* The eggs are described as having a 

 ground color, varying from a deep umber to a pale greenish-gray and 

 in size measuring from 2.95 to 3.25 long by 1.85 to 2.00 in breadth. 



11. Urinator lumme (GUNN.) [740.] 



Red-throated Loon. 



Hab. Northern part of Northern Hemisphere, migrating southward in winter nearly across the United 

 States. 



This little Loon breeds in high latitudes. It is also a bird of the 

 Old World, where its breeding range is about the same as that of 

 the Black-throated Diver. It is not an uncommon summer resident of 

 New Brunswick, and it breeds in company with the common Loon in 

 the Province of Quebec, Canada, on the islands of the St. Lawrence 

 River and Gulf. In the large lakes and ponds of Manitoba it is a tol- 

 erably common summer resident, and particularly in the Red River 

 valley. From these places northward to Alaska, and in the Arctic 

 regions it breeds more or less abundantly in all suitable places. 



In Labrador it breeds in the first part of June ; in Hudson Strait 

 eggs may be collected from the middle of June to the middle of July. 



Mr. M. Abbott Frazar says that on the islands and along the coast 

 of Labrador this species nests on the edge of the smaller ponds, these 

 often being mere pools of surface water. The birds make no nest, but 

 deposit their eggs in a bare hollow space on the ground, usually not 

 over one foot from the water's edge.f Two eggs are laid, and the color 

 varies from deep reddish-brown to grayish-green, sparsely spotted with 

 brownish-black. In size they vary from 2.65 to 3.00 long by 1.70 to 

 1.85 broad. A at of two eggs collected by J. N. McFadden, on 

 Resolution Island, Hudson Strait, June 18, measure 2.74x1.78, 



2.72X T ,#I. 



12. Lunda cirrhata PALL. [745-] 



Tufted Puffin. 



Hab. Coasts and islands of the North Pacific, from California to Alaska, and from Japan to Bering's 

 Strait. Accidental on the coast of Maine. 



A curious bird with a parrot-like bill, hence the name of Sea Par- 

 rot which is applied to all the Puffins. This species breeds on the isl- 

 ands along the Pacific coast, from the Farallons northward to the 

 islands of Bering Sea. Its general color is black, with a conspicuous 



* Baird, Brewer and Ridgway's Water Birds, Vol. II, p. 457. 

 t Ornithologiit and Oologist, Vol. XII, p. 2. 



