Gavia imber. Columbus torquatus, 1873. Maine (Lake Umbagog). Aug. 27. While coming down the Lake after dark heard the mournful cries of many loons. Sept. 15. Shot an adult female in perfect plumage. She weighed eleven pounds and two ounces. Although a bullet from my .44 caliber rifle passed directly through the middle of her neck, shattering most of the vertebrae and cutting the jugular vein, she dove twice afterwards and swam for a long distance under water; in fact I had to shoot her again with shot, before she could be captured. 1874. Aug 18. Fired twenty-five shots at a Loon which was swimming in the Lake near the Outlet. He rather seemed to enjoy the fun, paying little attention to the bullets other than to rise and flap his wings when one came very near him. I saw another in Leonard's Pond; being cornered by my boat it dove and passed beneath it into the river, marking its course by the line of air bubbles which came to the surface. " 22. Killed an adult bird in Leonard's Pond. At the first shot my rifle ball passed through his throat severing the tongue at its base. He dove and tried to pass me but was obliged to come up within a few yards when I put another ball through the back of his head killing him instantly. He was a beautiful bird as he lay dead on the surface of the water among the green lily-pads; his glossy back frosted with air bubbles. Sept. 3. Coming down the Lake on a steamer during a gale of wind I noticed that nearly every Loon that we overtook instead of diving, flew; all cleared the surface with apparent ease. 1879. May 23. One rose near my boat with a large fish held cross-ways in his bill, its bright scales gleaming in the sunlight. It seemed to give him much trouble before he succeeded in swallowing it. During this process which occupied several minutes he seemed to be at times in real suffering struggling on the surface and apparently trying in vain to dive