fe other bird was silent. As I paddled out from shore, after
etermining that the pipped egg was not hatched, the larger bird

accompanied the canoe for several hundred yards then rushed over
the water back to the nest.

On June 8 at 2:00 p.m. one egg was hatched, the other pipped.
Both adults remained close to the nest; both gave the laughing call
almost continuously but only the larger one displayed. The chick
scrambled out of the nest and although I put it back several times
it finally swam out and joined the adults, and all three moved off.
An hour later the pair was a mile from the nest, the young one
riding on the back of the larger parent. All that evening both
adults, on a distant part of the lake, were very noisy; neither
returned to the nest. Until 8:30 p.m., at least, the chick in the
egg was alive and could be heard peeping. How long it survived was
not determined; when the nest was again visited at 9:00 p.m. on the
following day it was dead in the egg.

This family was observed several times until June 17. Usually
the trio swam in single file with the young one in the centre, the
adults modifying their swimming speed to that of the chick. On one
occasion as I paddled across the lake, not attempting to overtake
the birds, my course took me within 30 feet. At about this distance
the larger bird rushed across the water then stood on its tail and
called numerous times; the other loon called also but continued
swimming in the normal manner

The pair and the young bird were seen together on August 18,
at 9:00 a.m Later in the day the larger adult, accompanied by
the young one now nearly full grown, were on the nesting territory
and when I approached them the adult behaved as it had done at
nesting time, swimming towards the canoe, calling repeatedly and
performing the several actions earlier described.

Maclure Lake--July 15: Nest 30 inches in greatest diameter
made of cattails including a few green stems, the top surface eight
inches above the water--built at the edge of a cattail marsh on the
shore of a narrow channel. It contained one egg. The loon was
heard, but not seen, leaving the nest as I rounded a nearby point
of the marshy shore. A few minutes later the pair was seen swim-
ming on the open lake 100 yards distant. Neither made any demon-
stration. Such a late record for nesting and the fact of only
one egg being in the nest suggest this was a second attempt. If
so it represents an unusual instance. Three other pairs of loons
were on this lake, two pair each with one young, and one pair
without young. The last allowed me to paddle as close as 30 feet
before they dived. They remained silent.

In reference to the account submitted regarding the family

of loons on Bouchie Lake it has been emphasized that the parent
observed incubating (the one which displayed and showed the most

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