Gavia imber. 
Lake Umbagog. 
1903 
June 14 On my return from the trip up Cambridge River I called 
on Alva Coolidge. He had just got back from B.Pond with two Loon's 
eggs which he took this afternoon. The nest, he tells me, was in a 
cove directly in front of a big rock, not concealed in the slight¬ 
est degree by grass or bushes but simply built up of mud and a few 
the surface of 
sticks a few inches above^the shallow water by which it was sur¬ 
rounded. The bird passed out directly under his boat in about 3 
feet of water as he entered the cove. 
