Columbus holboellii.
1893, Lake Umbagog.
October 8. Pine Point.
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must have been species of
the middle of the lake and were distinctly made by some water fowl.
Once, the bird - whatever it was - flew up and down the lake, giving its strange cries repeatedly, as it passed our camp. Will Sargent thought that the whistle, as well as the crar-ar-r-r-r, was of vocal origin, and I had the same impression.
October 9. Lake Umbagog.
Pine Point.
this morning
Soon after breakfast, we heard the same mysterious cries
two which noted last night. They came from the direction of B Point in its water hornet,
of which floated a large bird which was too far away to be made out distinctly, even with the aid of the glass, but which Jim Ber-Assures me that it had seen me shot nier, who came up on the steamer a little later, told me was a Red-necked Grebe. He knows this species perfectly well, for I have shot several specimens when with him. He says the steamer ran past it within good affording him a short gun-shot range and he had a perfectly good view of it. He also assures me that it was the only water bird of any kind which they saw above the Narrows and the lake was as smooth as glass at the time. I now recollect hearing the crar-ar-r-r-r- cry in October than to Holboell's Grebe, 1890, and then attributing it to the Red-necked Grebe. While the perhaps it leaves evidence in the present case is not, of course, conclusive I have (with in my mind doubt) that the Grebe was the author of these cries. above described must have been a Holboell's Grebe.
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