CATALOGUE OF CANADIAN BIRDS. Q 



nearly as well as the old one. Common throughout Labrador ; 

 one nest found, July 25th, 1896, on Clearwater Lake, containing 

 two eggs in an advanced state of incubation. {Spreadborough.) 



This bird breeds at the south end of Lake Manitoba. I have 

 also received the eggs from Morley in Alberta. It breeds com- 

 monly on the islands in the Muskoka Lakes, Ontario. A clutch 

 of two eggs in my collection was taken on an island in Lake 

 Donaldson, near Buckingham, Quebec. The eggs were taken 

 June 24th, 1895, by Mr. Warwick. This bird is a late breeder. 

 {^Raine.') 



The nest of this species, if nest it can be called, is only a 

 slight hollow in the earth or ground within a short distance of the 

 water's edge. One found on the 21st June, 1897, ^^ Lake of the 

 Woods, was within six inches of the water's edge. It was only a 

 flight hollow in the sand, and the two eggs were placed therein. 

 {G. R. White.) 



The loon is a common summer resident in Ontario. It still 

 breeds in many of the retired lakes, and a pair or two frequent 

 the River St. Lawrence for this purpose between Kingston and 

 Brockville. I have found many of their nests and noticed that 

 they return to the same locality year after year even when their 

 •eggs have been repeatedly taken. The situation chosen varies ; 

 sometimes it is on the shore of some out-of-the-way island, two 

 or three feet from the water's edge. Several nests I found con- 

 sisted of a mass of weeds and bullrushes piled up in three feet of 

 water, so that a boat could be rowed alongside. They are very 

 punctual in their time of laying ; in one locality in the county of 

 Leeds, Ont , I have found the two eggs four years in succession 

 ■on the 23rd, the 24th, the 25th and the 24th of May. On the 

 River St. Lawrence a little later, from the ist to the 6th of June. 

 By the great resemblance each set of eggs has borne to the pre- 

 ceding one, I have no doubt but that the same pair of birds 

 returns to the same locality year after year. They generally 

 arrive at the end of April and leave again in September or October. 

 I noticed two pairs of these birds at the Magdalen Islands in 

 June 1897, ^tid think they breed on the fresh-water ponds of the 

 •eastern islands. (^Rev. C.J. Young.) 



Found breeding at Lake St. Clair and in the small lakes in the 

 Bruce Peninsula ; also at the Pelee Marsh, Lake Erie. Nest at 



