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Gibbons Yellow Billed Loon O Gavia adamsii
1931
June 20, St. Lawrence Is., Bering Sea, Alaska
On - positiv - yellow bill - rock snugs. Seen
from ship on south side of islands.
July 12, Sevoonga, St. Lawrence Is., Bering
Sea, Alaska Several pair seen near
Camp Collin on June 28. Yellow bill
not seen for certainty On July
5th six or seven were seen in
Dirktook Bay and Lagoon - They flew
high, uttering their weird laughing cry,
and the general direction was from
the ocean inland or vice versa: I
saw one in the water within a yard
of shore in the lagoon but could
not approach within gunshot range.
Probably they rest on the lakes &
lagoons. They are quite wary.
Point Hope, Arctic Ocean, Alaska.
Aug 2. at the reindeer camp, 10 miles
East, a native brought me a large
dark egg that had been found by
the reindeer herders. The bird, as
he said was, a large loon with
a black head & light bill -
probably a Yellow Billed Loon. On my