THE WHITE-CRESTED CORMORANT. 841 



IX comparison with its whistling ct.ingener. the Trumpeter Swan is the 

 larger, as it is e\'er\-where the rarer bird. Audubon tells of one which was 

 nearh' ten feet in alar expanse, and which weighed abo\e thirty-eight pounds. 

 The names ■"Whistler" and "Trumpeter" are not meant to express a difference 

 in kind in the notes of the two birds, so much as a difference in \i:ilume. The 

 Whistler blows a penny trumpet and the Trumpeter a trombone. The pre- 

 eminence of the latter as a musician is due t(] the fact that he keeps an extra 

 coil of wind])ipe neath' tucked away within a cunxenient liollow of his 

 breast -bone. 



There is no well authenticated instance of the recent cjccurrence of the 

 Trumpeter v^wan in Washington, altho Samuel X. Rhoads'', in icSg^, surmised 

 that half a dozen birds seen at Xisqually were of this species. Indeed, the 

 entire Trumpeter tradition is now yellowed with age and speaks of a time 

 when such wonders as wild swans were much more common. 



"The Ijird is undoubtedly an inhabitant of Washington and Oregon Ter- 

 ritories. It is, like the preceding s])ecies. more abundant on the Columbia 

 River than on Ptiget Sound. In the winter oi i853-"54, I noticed immense 

 flocks of Swans, apparently of this species, collected along the shores of the 

 ri\'er mentioned, and sjjread out along the margin of the water for a distance 

 \-ar\"ing" from an eighth to a (fuarter of .-i mile" ( Suckle\' )''. 



"Before we left the Columbia, early in Xovemljer, the Swans had begun 

 to arrive from the X'orth, and frequenil}' while at Fort \'ancou\'er their trum- 

 peting call drew our attention to the long converging lines of these magnificent 

 birds, .so large and so snowy white, as tlie_\' came from their northern nesting- 

 places, and screaming with delight at the appearance of the Inroad expanse of 

 water, perhaps their winter home, descended into the Columbia" ( Dr. J. S. 

 X'ewberrv l"^. 



No. 341. 



WHITE-CRESTED CORMORANT. 



A. O. I'. Xo. 120 1). Phalacrocorax auritus cincinatus (Brandt). 



Synonyms. — ^^"KSTI•:R.\ DciriiLK-CRKSTED Cormokaxt. Sh.\g. 



Description. — .-idults in breeding plumage: General color glossy greenish 

 black : the back and wings slaty brown, each feather bordered narrowly with 

 greenish black; a tuft of narrow, filamentous, white feathers on each side of 

 crown over and behind eye; tail of twelve feathers; bill yellow, blackening on 

 culmen ; gular sac and lores orange -yellow ; eyelids and lining of mouth livid 



a. Proc. .'\cad. Nat. Sci. Phila. 1893, p. 35, 



b. Rep. Pac. R. R. Surv. XII., Book 11., p. 249. 



c. Rep. Pac. R. R. Surv. VI., pt. I\'., p. 100. 



