564 BIKDS — COLTMBID^. 



outcry -when we approached their property, which was soon to be onrs by right of dis- 

 covery. At other times the birdBwereiiotatallgregarion8,beiiigtisually observed forag- 

 ing singly or in pairs. Several young of the year were taken, thus confirming the state- 

 ment of the resident who informed ns that he had taken numbers of eggs of the first 

 brood in May. Of the dozen or more'sets of eggs taken by us early in July, more than 

 half were fresh or nearly bo.'' 



ORDER PYGOFODBS. DIVING BIRDS. 



FAMILY COLYMBIDiE. LOONS. 



Feet four-toed, palmate. Hallux lobate, connected at base with base of inner toe. 

 Tail perfect. Head closely and completely feathered. Nostrils with a depending lobe 

 or flap. Bill straight, compressed, acnte. 



Genus COLTMBUS. Linnaeus. 

 With characters of the family. 



CoLYMBDS TORQUATUs Brunn. 



ILiooxi ; &reat N'ortliern. Diver. 



Goh/mbus gladaUa, Kirtland, Ohio Geolog. 8nrv., 1838, 166, 186. 



Coh/nibus torquatus, Whbaton, Ohio Agric. Rep. for 1860, 371 ; Reprint, 1861, 13 ; Pood 

 of Birds, etc., Ohio Agric. Rep. for 1874, 575 ; Reprint, 1875, 15. — Langdok, Cat. 

 Birds of Gin., 1877, 18 ; Revised List, Journ. Cin, Soc. Nat. Hist., i, 1879, 187 ; Re- 

 print, 21 ; Summer Birds, ib., iii, 1880, 230. 



Loon, Ballou, Field and Forest, iii, 1878, 136. 



Colynibus torquatus, Bbunnich, Orn. Bor., 1764, No 134. 

 Colymius glaoialis, Lrisns.«!us, Syst. Nat., i, 1766, 2il. 



Black ; below from the breast white, with dark tonches on the sides and vent ; back 

 with numerous square white spots ; head and neck iridescent with violet and green, 

 having a patch of sharp white streaks on each side of the neck and another on the 

 throat; bill black. Yonng: — Dark-gray above, the feathers with paler edges; below 

 white from the bill, the sides dusky ; bill yellowish-green and dusky. Length, 2^-3 feet ; 

 extent, about 4 ; wing, about 14 inches ; tarsus, 3 or more ; longest toe and claw, 4 or 

 more ; bill, 3 or less, at base 1 deep and \ wide, the cnlmen, commissure and gonys all 

 gently curved. 



Habitat, Northern Hemisphere. In winter generally dispersed in the United States. 



Common spring and fall migrant and winter resident. Mr. Langdon 

 notes its occasional occurrence in Northern Ohio in summer, and it is 

 still probably, as it certainly was formerly, a summer resident. Dr. 

 Kirtland mentions its having been picked up on land after a storm. I 

 have known it to be taken in the streets of this city under the same cir- 

 cumstances. In this vicinity it often appears in companies of from six 

 to ten, and furnishes ample shooting to sportsmen who find them the most 

 expert of all divers, generally escaping by this means when their cap- 



