Summer Birds Tim Pond Me. by F. H, 0. 
Loon, (Oolymbus torquatus). Saw a couple on 
the lake each year, their wailing cry making sad 
music in that lonely wilderness. They were 
quite tame and one—a young one—would admit 
of being stroked by my hand. But at last a 
sportsman, freshly arriving from Boston, deemed 
it a fine thing to shoot it, and it fell a victim to 
misplaced confidence. For two days and nights 
the remaining one constantly uttered its mourn¬ 
ful cry, and a week later I found it lying dead on 
the shore. My guide, Mart. Fuller, an intelligent 
Yankee backwoodsman, stoutly asserts it died of 
a broken heart, but I am suspicious of the afore¬ 
said cockney sportman. 
O.&Q. XI. Feb. 1883. p. js: 
Birds of Dead Elver Region, Me, F. H. O. 
103. Colymbus torquatus, (Loon). Nearly every 
lake in this country was occupied by one or more 
of these birds. I received sufficient evidence, of 
their breeding at Flagstaff Lake and Big Island 
Lake, one of the Seven Ponds. 
At the mention of this bird there comes a 
memory of reposing on fragrant hemlock “ sapin ” 
in the quaint companionship of my guide, and 
with the weird midnight cry of the Loon it re¬ 
solves itself into an ideal; the shadows of the 
Dead River region of Maine. 
O.&O. XI.Dec. 1886.p. H'l-lYf. 
SummerResidents on Sontlivyosf 
Coast of Maine. T.H, Montgomery, Jr.. 
7. Loon. Saw one of this species near Seal 
Harbor, Mt. Deseit. It seemed to be a young 
bird. 
Q«andO» 15 a Hov. 1890 . p.IQI 
