﻿BIRDS 
  OF 
  NEW 
  YORK 
  103 
  

  

  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 
  Ba}', 
  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]. 
  

  

  LaAvrence, 
  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 
  septentrionr, 
  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 
  2 
  5 
  inches 
  ; 
  extent 
  44 
  ; 
  wing 
  1 
  1 
  . 
  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 
  

  

  