The Oologist. 



VOL. XIX. NO. 3. 



ALBION. N. Y., MARCH, 1902. 



Whole No. 186 



The Oologist. 



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Field Notes From Manitoba. 



MOKE ABOUT LOONS. 



In my last paper in the Oologist I 

 promised its readers my 1901 experience 

 with the Loons, so I sit down today to 



put into readable form the notes made 

 last June. 



On the 19th, I loaded up my boat 

 and left home at 2:30 p.m. to try my 

 luck at the Loon's rendezous. At 9 

 p. m. I drew rein before Mr. A's house, 

 and we talked till 1:30 a.m. making 

 our plans for the morrow. In 1900 we 

 only visited two lakes, this time I was 

 determined to visit all the lakes I knew 

 of, so we made our plans and then re- 

 tired. 



June 20th, up bright and early. The 

 warblers, Robins, etc were filling the 

 woods with their melody. At 7:30 a.m. 

 started for what is known to me and 

 other readers of the Oologist as Loon 

 Lake, where we got the set taken last 

 year. Here we found nothing, but 

 examined the nest, from which Mr. A 

 had taken a set of two Loon eggs on the 

 9th inst. almost hatched, and had bad- 

 ly chipped the holes in blowing, or 

 more correctly speaking extracting the 

 downy young. He gave me this set, 

 but I had the misfortune to let one drop 

 and of course it came to grief. This 

 nest was like all nests found on this 

 lake, simply a pile of bay moss brought 

 up from the bottom of the lake and 

 formed into a cone like pile. The nest 

 was much the same size as the one of 

 last year, and quite near the same place 

 in about 2 feet of water. We searched 

 the lake here carefully, but found no 

 sign of the second nest and the Loons 

 seemed to have left the pond for this 

 season. We found nothing here and 

 and only saw a brood of young Mallard 

 Duck and a few Blackbirds and Black 

 Tern So we left this lake and drove 

 on to the other lake about two miles 

 east, known as Bosey's Lake, which we 

 had visited last July, here we saw a 



