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Title: Bird-nesting in north-west Canada
Year: 1892 (1890s)
Authors: Raine, Walter, 1861-1934
Subjects: Birds Birds
Publisher: Toronto : Printed by Hunter, Rose and Company
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^ in Ontario, about theMuskoka Lakes and around Lake Simcoe. It breeds regularlyall along the northern part of the United States, in Dakota,Minnesota, Wisconsin, Michigan and New York. In marshydistricts, this bird makes a nest of sedges, grass and sods nearthe waters edge amongst the rushes, but in rocky districts,like Muskoka in Ontario and the Adirondack Mountains innorthern New York, it makes no nest, but simply lays its eggsin holes in the sand, or on the rocks near the waters edge. This bird is common in Iceland, from where I receive a num-ber of clutches every year. The number of eggs to a clutchis generally two, but occasionally as many as three eggs havebeen found in a nest. They are rather late breeders, seldom hav-ing eggs before the middle of June. A set of two eggs before mewere collected by J. W. Banks, at Balls Lake, New Bruns-
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LOONS NEST. In North-West Canada. 153 wick, June 20th, 1889. The nest was composed of lily leaves,grass and rushes, and was built in shallow water. Another setof two eggs in my possession were collected as late as August4th, 1889, at Lake St. Joseph, Muskoka, Ontario ; in this casethere was no nest, the eggs were simply laid in a hole in thesand near the waters edge. In an open drawer before me is a series of eighteen eggs ofthis species. The eggs of the great northern diver are verydark-looking and do not vary much, some are olive-brown,others olive-dral? or chocolate, spotted and blotched with darkbrown or black. In shape they are long and narrow, andaverage m size 3.55 x 2.30. I have on more than one occasionseen loons in Toronto Bay, but they do not breed nearer thanLake Simcoe. The red-throated loon is also a common summer resident inManitoba, and breeds around Shoal Lake, and Lakes Winnipegand Manitoba, and in the extensive swamps about the mouth ofthe Red River. Further east it

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