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  NEW 
  YORK 
  STATE 
  MUSEUM 
  

  

  throughout 
  the 
  winter. 
  On 
  the 
  smaller 
  lakes 
  it 
  is 
  occasionally 
  seen, 
  but 
  

   must 
  be 
  regarded 
  as 
  decidedly 
  less 
  abundant 
  than 
  the 
  Common 
  loon. 
  DeKay 
  

   and 
  Giraud 
  considered 
  it 
  as 
  comparatively 
  rare; 
  Rathbun 
  and 
  Chapman 
  

   as 
  fairly 
  common, 
  while 
  the 
  other 
  local 
  lists 
  have 
  recorded 
  it 
  as 
  a 
  rare, 
  or 
  un- 
  

   common 
  species. 
  I 
  have 
  frequently 
  observed 
  it 
  on 
  Canandaigua 
  lake, 
  and 
  

   on 
  Lake 
  Ontario 
  off 
  the 
  Charlotte 
  harbor 
  where 
  it 
  is 
  sometimes 
  decidedly 
  

   conmion. 
  In 
  severe 
  winters 
  when 
  the 
  lake 
  freezes, 
  these 
  birds 
  like 
  the 
  

   grebes, 
  are 
  often 
  taken 
  unawares 
  and 
  left 
  stranded 
  on 
  the 
  ice 
  apparently 
  

   unable 
  to 
  rise, 
  and 
  flounder 
  over 
  the 
  ice 
  and 
  snow 
  in 
  a 
  helpless 
  condition 
  

   till 
  they 
  are 
  either 
  captured 
  or 
  die 
  from 
  exposure. 
  On 
  January 
  loth, 
  

   1885, 
  a 
  bird 
  in 
  this 
  condition 
  was 
  captured 
  by 
  two 
  wood 
  choppers 
  at 
  Adams 
  

   Basin. 
  On 
  December 
  22, 
  1903, 
  another 
  specimen 
  under 
  very 
  similar 
  con- 
  

   ditions 
  was 
  taken 
  in 
  Bergen 
  swamp, 
  18 
  miles 
  south 
  of 
  Lake 
  Ontario, 
  and 
  

   in 
  February 
  of 
  the 
  same 
  year 
  a 
  specimen 
  was 
  captured 
  on 
  the 
  ice 
  and 
  brought 
  

   to 
  the 
  Park 
  Aviary 
  in 
  Rochester. 
  

  

  This 
  is 
  a 
  holarctic 
  species 
  breeding 
  from 
  Scotland, 
  New 
  Brunswick, 
  

   and 
  Manitoba 
  to 
  high 
  latitudes, 
  and 
  migrates 
  southward 
  in 
  winter 
  nearly 
  

   as 
  far 
  as 
  the 
  Common 
  loon. 
  

  

  Migrations. 
  The 
  late 
  David 
  Bruce 
  of 
  Brockport, 
  stated 
  that 
  he 
  had 
  

   found 
  this 
  bird 
  on 
  Lake 
  Ontario 
  during 
  every 
  month 
  of 
  the 
  year. 
  It 
  is 
  

   mainly 
  a 
  transient 
  visitant, 
  however, 
  arriving 
  from 
  the 
  north 
  from 
  Septem- 
  

   ber 
  19 
  to 
  the 
  last 
  of 
  October 
  and 
  passing 
  southward 
  about 
  the 
  first 
  of 
  Decem- 
  

   ber. 
  The 
  few 
  which 
  remain 
  all 
  winter 
  are 
  joined 
  by 
  spring 
  migrants 
  the 
  

   latter 
  part 
  of 
  March, 
  the 
  greater 
  number 
  of 
  these 
  passing 
  on 
  to 
  their 
  breedmg 
  

   grounds 
  in 
  the 
  north 
  before 
  the 
  first 
  of 
  June. 
  Like 
  many 
  of 
  the 
  waterfowl, 
  

   however, 
  this 
  loon 
  is 
  often 
  found 
  loitering 
  on 
  the 
  lake 
  long 
  after 
  the 
  breeding 
  

   season 
  has 
  begun, 
  but 
  there 
  is 
  not 
  the 
  slightest 
  evidence 
  to 
  my 
  knowledge 
  

   of 
  its 
  ever 
  nesting 
  within 
  our 
  borders. 
  Mr 
  George 
  F. 
  Guelf 
  of 
  Brockport 
  

   reports 
  specimens 
  taken 
  June 
  13, 
  1899 
  (J" 
  ) 
  ; 
  June 
  22, 
  1899 
  ( 
  9 
  ) 
  ; 
  and 
  July 
  17, 
  

   1896 
  (in 
  molting 
  plumage). 
  

  

  