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Title: A popular handbook of the birds of the United States and Canada
Year: 1903 (1900s)
Authors: Nuttall, Thomas, 1786-1859 Chamberlain, Montague, 1844-1924
Subjects: Birds -- North America
Publisher: Boston, Little, Brown
Contributing Library: American Museum of Natural History Library
Digitizing Sponsor: Biodiversity Heritage Library

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es, being tough and imperviousto wet, are used by the Indians and Esquimaux, as well asby the Norwegians, for articles of dress. The Arctic Diver is an autumnal and winter bird of passagein England, Germany, and Holland, more rare upon the in-terior lakes of France, but common upon those of Switzer-land. It lives on fish, frogs, insects, and aquatic plants, andnests in the reeds and herbage upon the borders of lakes andin marshes, preferring those which are much intersected bywaters : it is said to lay two eggs, which are brown, markedwith scattered black spots. The Black-throated Loon is somewhat uncommon everywherewithin its range, but is especially rare on this eastern side of theAtlantic. It breeds in the Far North, and in winter has beenfound as far south as the Bay of Fundy, and casually to Ohio andLong Island. This is a rather solitary bird, though occasionally two or threepairs breed on the same lake, but rarely associate. In the migra-tion small flocks are sometimes met with.
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RED-THROATED LOON. Urinator lumme. Char. Prevailing color brownish black, varied by paler and a fewspots of white; head and neck light slate gray, the throat with a patch ofbright chestnut ; under parts silky white. Length about 25 inches. Nest. On the margin of a retired pond, — a depression in the sand, closeto the waters edge; sometimes lined with a few bits of grass. Eggs. Usually 2; pale brown, often tinged with olive, and spottedwith dark brown; average size about 2.75 X 1.80. This Species is again a general inhabitant of the northernregions of both continents, from whence few migrate to any-great distance, — except the young, and these are seen not un-commonly along the coasts of the United States in the course 394 DIVERS. of the winter. According to Richardson, these birds frequentthe shores of Hudson Bay up to the extremity of Melville Pen-insula, and are also abundant on the interior lakes, where theybreed. Mr. Audubon found them nesting on the coast ofLabrador near smal

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