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conceal one's self iind lire at the unsuspecting' 

 bird when he comes within distance. But 

 even this manner of capture often fails, for 

 when the bird comes within shooting- dis- 

 tance, and unconsciously, which is rarely the 

 case, even then the bird often dives at the 

 flash. The other way, — and this way rarely 

 fails, — is to g-et the doomed bird between two 

 or more shooters. In this case the Loon gets 

 rattled, so-to-speak, and is keeled over on the 

 narrow river or mill-pond; how many land 

 loons would fail as well? And yet I have 

 seen a doomed bird surrounded on a 

 small mill pond and with not a gdiost 

 of a chance to escape by fligdit, — and 

 the bird knew it, — keep several shooters firing 

 for an hour before succumbing- to the inevita- 

 ble. The Loon can dive at the flash and I 

 have observed that act scores of times, and so 

 quick are liis movements that he can escape 

 the death dealing- shot or bullet almost every 

 time. 



After cireful observation on the flig-ht of 

 birds, 1 can assert that the Loon is the poor- 

 est bird in raising- from the water that there 

 is in m\ nciglUH>rhood, and probably there 

 are no poorer, — excepting the peng-uins 

 which cannot raise above the surface. The 

 Loon cannot spring- into the air as do the 



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