62 BIRDS OF THE NEW YORK CITY REGION 



ENGLEWOOD REGION. Regular in spring, but almost 

 never alights; only one fall record. April 20, 1912 (Griscom, 

 LaDow) to May 17, 1914 (J. T. Nichols); November 23, 1913 

 (Griscom). 



PACIFIC LOON (Gavia pacifica) 



An accidental visitant from the northwest. One record, 

 Sand's Point, Long Island, April 29, 1893. Recorded by 

 Dutcher as the Black-throated Loon and passed as such in the 

 literature until 1917, when W. DeW. Miller reidentified the 

 skin in the American Museum of Natural History at the 

 request of F. Seymour Hersey, who was investigating the 

 status of the Black-throated Loon in North America. (See 

 Auk, 1917, pp. 283-290.) 



RED-THROATED LOON (Gavia stellata) 



This species is much less frequent in our area than the 

 common Loon. The adult in breeding plumage with a red 

 throat is rarely seen. In winter plumage the upper parts are 

 spotted with white instead of margined with grayish, as in the 

 common Loon. It is a much smaller bird, and Eaton has 

 pointed out its best field character, the slenderer bill, slightly 

 concave in the region of the nostrils, giving it an uptilted 

 appearance at a great distance. 



Uncommon migrant along the coast, occasional in winter 



and summer. There are two old records for the Hudson 



River, and Fisher gives it as a casual transient at Ossining 



without definite data. Otherwise no records from the interior. 



Long Island. Fairly common transient, uncommon in winter, 



most numerous in November. September 14 to May 11, casually 



as early as August 24 to June 30. 



ORIENT. Not common transient, occasional in winter and 

 summer. October 18, 1912 to May 17, 1918, average No- 

 vember 8 to May 6. 



MASTIC. Uncommon transient. 



LONG BEACH. Uncommon transient, decidedly rare in 

 winter, September 19, 1872 (N. T. Lawrence) and October 6, 

 1921 (Bicknell) to May 29, 1919 (Bicknell). 



