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BIRDS OF N O R T H E R N CANADA 295
8. Y E L L O W - B I L L E D LOON— G a v i a adamsii ( Gray).
In the spring of 1885, a hunter belonging to Fond du
Lac, Lake Athabasca, shot a fine specimen of this beautiful
loon, which was forwarded to Mr. John J . Dalgleish, of
Edinburgh, Scotland. Although this species was very numerous
on the polar shores of Liverpool and Franklin bays,
where it no doubt breeds, yet we never succeeded in finding
even one well authenticated set of its eggs, while it is possible
that the two Adamsii eggs referred to on page 452 of
V o l . II. of the " Water Birds of North America," by Baird,
Brewer and Ridgway, may have belonged to the great
northern diver. An Eskimo of our bird and egg gathering
party observed a male Somateria V. nigra struck and killed on
the wing by an attacking bird of the species under review. It
is entered as " abundant on Great Slave Lake," in Mr Ross's
" List of Birds observed in the Mackenzie River District."
There is not a single skin or egg of this loon i n the Dominion
Museum at Ottawa!
9. B L A C K - T H E O A T E D LOON— G a v i a arcticus ( L i n n . ).
Early in June, 18S5, a half- breed hunter brought into
Fort Chipewyan, the " headquarters " of the Athabasca District,
where the writer then resided, the female parent, with
a set of eggs which he claimed to have obtained from her
nest. The latter, he stated, was a mere depression in the
ground on the margin of a large pond or sheet of water.
Both were forwarded to Mr. Dalgleish, who also identified
them as Urinalur arclicus.— the old name of this loon. This
species undoubtedly breeds in the Arctic territories of the
Dominion, although I have personally known of but one
atithenticated set of its eggs, procured at Fort Anderson,
season 1865, and which is now probably at rest among the
grand Oological Collection of the United States National
Museum in Washington, D. C. Mr. Ross secured a set of
eggs thereof in Mackenzie River.
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| OCR | BIRDS OF N O R T H E R N CANADA 295 8. Y E L L O W - B I L L E D LOON— G a v i a adamsii ( Gray). In the spring of 1885, a hunter belonging to Fond du Lac, Lake Athabasca, shot a fine specimen of this beautiful loon, which was forwarded to Mr. John J . Dalgleish, of Edinburgh, Scotland. Although this species was very numerous on the polar shores of Liverpool and Franklin bays, where it no doubt breeds, yet we never succeeded in finding even one well authenticated set of its eggs, while it is possible that the two Adamsii eggs referred to on page 452 of V o l . II. of the " Water Birds of North America," by Baird, Brewer and Ridgway, may have belonged to the great northern diver. An Eskimo of our bird and egg gathering party observed a male Somateria V. nigra struck and killed on the wing by an attacking bird of the species under review. It is entered as " abundant on Great Slave Lake," in Mr Ross's " List of Birds observed in the Mackenzie River District." There is not a single skin or egg of this loon i n the Dominion Museum at Ottawa! 9. B L A C K - T H E O A T E D LOON— G a v i a arcticus ( L i n n . ). Early in June, 18S5, a half- breed hunter brought into Fort Chipewyan, the " headquarters " of the Athabasca District, where the writer then resided, the female parent, with a set of eggs which he claimed to have obtained from her nest. The latter, he stated, was a mere depression in the ground on the margin of a large pond or sheet of water. Both were forwarded to Mr. Dalgleish, who also identified them as Urinalur arclicus.— the old name of this loon. This species undoubtedly breeds in the Arctic territories of the Dominion, although I have personally known of but one atithenticated set of its eggs, procured at Fort Anderson, season 1865, and which is now probably at rest among the grand Oological Collection of the United States National Museum in Washington, D. C. Mr. Ross secured a set of eggs thereof in Mackenzie River. |
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