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escape, and endeavoring to attract the attention of the intruder to 

 herself. The old birds fished in the lake near by and were often 

 seen carrying small fishes to the young. An adult male and two of 

 the downy young were taken. 



In 1903 a red-throated loon was seen on Athabaska Lake near Fort 

 Chipewyan, June 2. The species was next observed near Gros Cape, 

 on Great Slave Lake, where I saw several July 23. In the region 

 north of Fort Rae I noted it on Sarahk Lake, August 7; Lake Faber, 

 August 8: Lake Eae. August 9: near Lake St. Croix, August 14; 

 and nearly every day during the following week on the various lakes 

 north of the latter point. On Great Bear Lake I noted the species 

 on MacTavish Bay, August 27; at our camp near Leith Point, 

 August 28; near McYicar Bay, September 9 and 10; and at Fort 

 Franklin, September 22 and 27, this being the last date recorded. 



In the summer of 1904 I saw a pair on the Mackenzie near the 

 mouth of Xahanni Eiver, June 3 ; one below Fort Norman, June 17 ; 

 and one near Rampart Rapid, June 19. 



The red-throated loon apparently was first recorded from the 

 Mackenzie region by Richardson, who observed it on the Arctic coast 

 west of Liverpool Bay. in the summer of 1848." Armstrong noted 

 its arrival at Mercy Bay, Banks Land, about June 1, 1852, during 

 the voyage of the /// reHtigotor. and specimens were afterwards taken.^ 

 M'Clintock noted several early in July, 1859, at Port Kennedy ; ^ 

 McCormick observed numbers in AVellington Channel, near Beechey 

 Island, in August of 1852 and 1853.'^ Ross spoke of two having been 

 taken at Fort Good Hope.^ Baird, Brewer, and Ridgway record 

 that specimens of the bird were procured at Fort Resolution, Fort 

 Rae, Big Island, Fort Simpson, Liard River, Anderson River, and 

 Great Bear Lake; and eggs from Great Slave Lake and Anderson 

 River.'^ MacFarlane considered it the least abundant of the loons 

 in the Anderson River region, finding about 40 nests, each usually 

 with 2 eggs.^ Pike found it common in the Barren Grounds south 

 of Lake Mackay June 11, 1890.^* Hubert Darrell, Avho accompanied 

 Hanbury along the Arctic coast in 1902, writes me that the species 

 was observed on Melville Sound on June 16. Gates records eggs 

 taken by Collinson at Cambridge Bay, Victoria Land.^ 



Arctic Searching Expedition, I, p. 251, 1851. 

 ^ Narrative Discovery Northwest Passage, pp. 522-529, 1857. 



A'oyage of the Fox, p. 292, 1860. 



McCormicli's Voyages, II, pp. 89, 1.37, 1884. 



Can. Nat. and GeoL, VI, p. 444, 1861. 

 f Water Birds N. A., II, p. 460, 1884. 

 6'Proc. U. S. Nat. Mus., XIV, p. 416, 1891. 

 '^Barren Ground of Northern Canada, p. 162, 1892. 

 ^ Cat. Birds' Eggs Brit. Mus., I, p. 139, 1901. 



