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species almost daily on the various lakes between there and Great 

 Bear Lake during the remainder of the month. On Great Bear Lake 

 I noted it at my camp east of Leith Point, September 2, and nearly 

 every day while traveling westward along the south shore of the lake. 

 I saw one at Fort Franklin, September '20, and one on lower Bear 

 River, September 30. The last one was seen on the Mackenzie near 

 Nahanni River, October 15. 



In the spring of 190-1- I first observed this loon at Fort Simpson, 

 Mackenzie, on May 23, noting two on the river near the post. Their 

 notes, however, had been heard previously by the natives.' While 

 descending the Mackenzie I saw a few 50 miles below Fort Simpson, 

 June 2, and near Nahanni River, June fi. T saw one near the mouth 

 of Peel River, June 30, and at Fort McPherson obtained from Mr. 

 W. H. "Walker the skins of two which he had taken there late in 

 May. On my return trip I noted the bird near the outlet of Atha- 

 baska Lake, August 6. 



The natives, especially the Dogribs, relish the flesh of this bird, 

 and frequently obtain it by concealing themselves on the margin of a 

 lake and decoying the bird within range by means of a tin plate or 

 other bright object, which they so manipulate as to attract its atten- 

 tion and excite its curiosity. 



Richardson was the first to formally record this species, describing 

 a specimen from Great Bear Lake." Later he speaks of observing 

 the birds migrating toward the southeast along the Arctic coast, near 

 Darnley Bay. August 17, 1848.'' King recorded the species from 

 Clinton- Colden Lake;'' and Ross, specimens from Fort Simpson and 

 Peel River.'' Armstrong recorded it under the name Colymbus 

 glacialis from Mercy Bay. Banks Land, where 5 were killed July 13, 

 1852. e Loons probably of this species were recorded by Parry from 

 Winter Harbor, Melville Island/ and by Sutherland from Assistance 

 Bay.* 



The catalogue in the National Museum shows that specimens were 

 received from Fort Resolution. Fort Norman, and Big Island. Mac- 

 Farlane found nest>. each with 2 eggs, in the Anderson River 

 region;'' and the head of a female taken by him there in July, 1864, 

 is still in the National Museum. Hanbury noted a common loon, the 



"Fauna Boreali-Americana, II. p. 474, 1831. 



''Arctic Searching Expedition, I. p. 282, 1851. 



c Narrative of Journey to Arctic Ocean, J, p. 235, 1836. 



''(':in. Nat. ami Geol., VI. p. I 11. 1861. 



' Narrative Discovery Northwest Passage, p. •">•■!<'>. 1857. 



f Journ. Parry's First Voyage, p. 218, 1821. 



"Jouni. Voy. to Baffin's Bay ami Farrow Strait, II, p. 209, 1852. 



* Proc. U. S. Nat. Mus., XIV, p. 410, 1S'J4. 



