BIRDS OF NEW YORK IO3 



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

 which had been shot by a gunner on the Hudson river near Troy, 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, see 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 speci- 

 men was captured off Mimico, May 22, 1889, recorded by Fleming [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) 



(Gavia lumme on plate) 



Red-throated Loon 



Plate 2 



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

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

 Urinator lumme A. O. U. Check List. Ed. 2. 1895. No. 11 



stellata, Lat., starred or spotted 



Description. Summer plumage: Crown and back of the neck black 

 with greenish gloss ; back of neck and sides 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 belly and longer tail coverts dusky; bill and 

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

 ashy gray; upper parts dusky grayish profusely spotted with white; no 

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

 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 



