Gavia immer Maria (b. Umbajog) Colymbus torquatus "Diving at the flash" 1885 Oct 20 My guide stalked a loon to-day and got a long shot at it from behind a rock. He did suspected danger and was on the alert but sat with its head, neck and entire back exposed. I was standing so that I could take in the mirror of the gun and its target without effort. Exactly simultaneously with the puff of smoke the loon cleft the water like a flash of lightning and was gone before the first shot struck the surface when it had been falling. The distance was perhaps fifty yards - certainly not more; the gun used a common buck-shooter. Copied A loon was shot at Middle Dam by Aldana Brooks a few years since which had the whole of the lower mandible cut off, presumably by a rifle ball. It was cut off close to the feathers and the tongue was hanging out. The injury had been evidently done long before as the wounded member had entirely healed. A German Sergeant shot a large loon one which had a good sized fish hook firmly fastened in the roof of its mouth. The presumption is that it took a live bait from a set line.