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BIRDS OF ILLINOIS. 



oases determme the species, U. arctious being decidedly smaller; the two comparing 

 about as follows: 



♦Or more. 



The Black-throated Loon is essentially an Arctic bird, but is 

 said to be a very rare winter visitant to Lake Michigan, thus 

 doubtless occasionally occurring within the limits of Illinois. I 

 am not, however, able to cite any record of ifcs actual occur- 

 rence, and Mr. Nelson mentions only Specimens taken at Racine 

 and Milwaukee, Wisconsin, 



Its habits are essentially the same as those of the larger and 

 more common species ( IT. imber) . 



Urinator lumme (Gunn.) 



BED-THBOATEB LOON. 



Popular synonym. Bed-throated Diver. 



Colymbus lumme Gunnbb. Trond. Selsk. Skr. i, 1761, pi. ii, flg. 2.— BntiNN. Orn. Bor. 176J, 



39 (adult). 

 Urinator lumme Stejit. Proo. U. 8. Nat. Mus. Vol. 5, 1882, 43.— B. B. & R. Water B. N. 



Am. ii, 1884, 457— A. O. U. Check List, 1886. No. 11.- Broow. Man. N. Am. B. 1887. 8. 

 Colymbus septentrionalis Linn. S. N. ed. 10,i, 1766, 220 (adult).— Sw, & Rich. P. B.-A. ii,183I, 



476.— NUTT. Man. ii, 1834, 519.— AuD. Orn. Biog. iii, 1835, 20, pi. 202; Synop. 1839,351; 



B. Am, vii, 1844, 299. pi. 478.— La we. inBaird'sB. N. Am. 1858. 890.— Baibd, Cat. 



N. Am. B. 1859, No. 701.— OouES.Key, 1872, 335; Check List, 1873, No. 607; ed. 2, 1882, 



No. 844; B. N. W. 1874, 724.— Ridgw. Nom. N. Am. B. 1881, No. 740. 

 Colymbus stellatus Bbunn. t. o. No. 130 (young). ' 



Golymbus borealis Bbunn. t. c. No. 131. 

 (Jolymbus striatus Gmel. S. N. i,pt. ii, 1788, 586 (young). 

 Colymbus rvfogularis Metee, Tasoh. Vog. Deutseh. ii, 463 (adult). 

 Oolymbus microrhynchos Bbehm, Naum. y, 1855, 300. 



Hab. Northern parts of the northern hemisphere, breeding from Labrador and Mani- 

 toba northward. South, in winter, entirely across the United States. 



Sp. Ohae. Adult, summer plumage: Head and neok soft velvety cinereous, the 

 crown streaked with dusky; nape dusky, streaked with white; a longitudinal, wedge- 

 shaped patch of rich chestnut covering the fore-neck, the lower, truncated, edge adjoining 

 the white of the chest, the upper point reaching to the lower part of the throat. Upper 

 parts dusky slate, more or less siieekled with white. Lower parts entirely pure white, 

 except along the sides, beneath the wings, and on the crlssum, where more or less mixed 

 with slate-color. Bill deep t>laok, the extreme point yellowish, and the oulmen sometimes 

 bluish; iris carmine; "tarsi and toes bluish white, each joint of the latter, and the whole ol 



