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Annotated List. 



Colymbus holboellii (Reinh.). 

 Holboell's Grebe. 



Rare transient visitor. 



According to Stearns ('83, p. 17) this grebe is "not rare in spring 

 and fall" on the southern Labrador coast. He also states that it 

 occasionally breeds, but this may be considered somewhat doubtful. 

 He refers to it in one place as the "Whabby" a name given on the 

 Labrador coast to the Red-throated Diver, as he himself recognizes. 



Colymbus auritus Linn. 



Horned Grebe. 



Rare transient visitor; possibly breeds. 



The only definite record for this bird in Labrador is of a specimen 

 taken at Fort George, James Bay, by R. Bell ('83). Turner speaks 

 of having seen a single grebe "in a tidepool at the mouth of the Kok- 

 soak River, September 15, 1882" but he was unable to determine 

 whether it was this species or C. holboellii. 



Gavia imber (Gunn.). 

 Loon; "Loo.'' 



Common summer resident. 



The Loon is well distributed throughout Labrador, although no- 

 where very abundant. It is found among the lakes of the interior 

 and along the entire coast of the peninsula, north into Hudson Strait, 

 especially in the deeper fiords and inlets. 



Cartwright, on his arrival at Cape Charles on July 30, 1770, says: 

 "As none of these people, who were employed in the boats, had ever 

 been in this part of the world before, they were greatly terrified with 

 the continual crying of the loons, believing them to be Indians." 



Cartwright records the first Loons in 1775 on April 14th; Audubon 

 speaks of having "witnessed the arrival of some on the coast of Labra- 

 dor, after they had crossed the Gulf of St. Lawrence, as late as the 

 20th of June." Various observers agree that they nest exclusively 

 on the borders of the freshwater lakes, large and small, that are so 

 numerous on the mainland. Low and others who have traversed the 



