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kinds were coming rapidly in and pitching down in the open water. 

 I was out in my shooting skiff in search of specimens when it 

 suddenly blew up from the East and I was caught among the 

 the drifting ice ; everything in the skiff got soaking wet ; 

 I broke both paddles trying to force a passage, and for a time 

 was at the mercy of the elements. While drifting along in this 

 condition I came close to a Black-throated Diver in similiar 

 trouble, it being caught among the ice unable to rise, and 

 evidently afraid to dive not knowing where it might come up. 

 We looked sympathizingly at each other, it uttered a low whin- 

 ing cry, and we drifted apart ; I got safe to land, and it is 

 to be hoped the rare bird reached the open water and got off in 

 safety; we did not meet again. From not having seen the species 

 recently or heard of its capture by others it may be considered 

 a very rare visitor to these inland waters. In Dr. W r heaton's 

 exhaustive report on the birds of Ohio, mention is made of an 

 individual being shot in Sandusky Bay in the fall of 1880 ; but 

 the line of its migratory course is probably more along the sea 

 coast. 



7 URINATOR LUMME (GUNN). Jl 



Red-throated Loon. 



Blackish , below white, dark along the sides and on the vent and crissum; 

 most of head and fore-neck bluish-gray, the throat with a large chestnut patch; 

 hind neck sharply streaked with white on a blackish ground, bill black. 

 Young have not these marks on the head and neck, but a profusion of small, 

 sharp, circular or oval white spots on the back. Size of the last, or rather 

 less. 



HAB. Northern part of Northern hemisphere, migrating southward in 

 winter nearly across the United States. 



Breeds in high latitude. Eggs, two in number, pale green. 



Audubon found this species breeding at Labrador, and in 

 the Fauna B or eali- Americana it is spoken of as " frequenting 

 the shores of Hudson Bay up to the extremity of Melville Pen- 

 insula." 



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