LOONS : Family Gaviidae [ 69 ] 



carried on at those points. Most of our specimens are in winter plumage 

 with the red throat entirely absent. Jewett has one bird (Coll. No. 2.02.8), 

 taken January i, 1913, that is in partial breeding plumage. Our earliest 

 fall record is November 4; our latest spring record, April 30. 



A single stomach taken by Alex Walker at Netarts, December ix, 192.1, 

 containing two Leptocottus armatus, furnishes the only record we have of 

 the food of this loon in Oregon. The bird is too scarce, anyway, to be of 

 any particular importance economically, whatever its food habits may be. 



