Gavia imber. Maine (Lake Umbagog). 1879. June 15. Alva Coolidge who has found a number of their nests tells me that Loon's eggs are rarely laid in this region before the middle of June and often not till July. He once, however, found a single egg June 1. There is usually no nest whatever the eggs being simply laid on the bare ground from one to five rods from the water's edge. He has found only one nest in his whole experience; this was a bulky affair mainly composed of grass. No one here has ever seen more than two eggs in a set. The third if surprised on the nest flops clumsily, but with remarkable speed, over the ground to the water's edge; (June 15) it is totally unable to rise in the air from the ground. The majority of the nests are found on islands but an occasional pair of birds will select some remote projecting point. 1880. May 16. One of its notes, a cry of two syllables, sounds like the wind wailing through the rigging of a ship. June 19. Alva Coolidge showed me several spots where he had found Loon's nests. They were among scattering boulders at high water mark on islands. He once found a nest (in the "Pong in the River"), to reach which the Loon had to climb a high bank over some large boulders. Where the shores are earthy or muddy the birds wear a smooth path to the water's edge. They not infrequently breed on floating islands. The eggs are usually laid on the bare earth in a hollow scraped out by the bird, which, however, sometimes builds a large bulky nest. 1881. May 10. A Loon in grey immature plumage with white throat and breast swimming on the flooded meadow near the house. " 20. Several pairs of the Lake. 1882. Oct. 9-22 A few seen.