The OoLOGiST. 



Vol. XXV. No. 7. 



Albion, N. Y. July, 1908. 



Whole No. 252 



THE OOLOGIST, 



A Monthly Publication Devoted to 



OOLOGY, ORNITHOLOGY AND TAXI- 

 DERMY. 

 FBANS H. LATTIN, PubUsher, 

 AI.BIOK, H. Y. 

 EaNEST H. SHORT. Editor and ICuiagec. 

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 ■tndcnt of Birds, their Nests and Kgga, solicited 

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The Whistling Swan on Niagara 

 River. 



The Whistling Swan, (Olar colum- 

 bianus), is a rare migrant along Niag- 

 ara River. It may be said to occur 

 regularly about the miclcUe of March 



and casually in the fall. Its capture, 

 however, would scarcely be possible, 

 were it not for its proneness to float 

 down the river to injury or death at 

 Niagara Falls. 



I am told by observers living at Ni- 

 agara Falls, in a position to know, 

 that scarcely a year passes without 

 one or more swans being sacrificed 

 at the cataract. In March, 1906, about 

 a score made the fatal plunge, and 

 iu the same month, 1907, five were 

 taken, but no such catastrophe in the- 

 swan world has ever been described 

 as that which happened on March 

 1-5, 1908, when more than 100 of these 

 majestic birds, journeying toward 

 tlieir summer home near the Arctic 

 Cii'cle, came to an untimely end. 



A severe rain storm, accompanied 

 by thunder and lightning, prevailed 

 during the greater part of that day 

 (March 15, 1908). About 11 o'clock 

 in the morning, between showers, 

 Wm. LeBlond of Niagara Falls, On- 

 tario, was engaged in removing from 

 the ice bridge, a temporary structure 

 that had been used during the winter 

 season as a soouvenir and refresh- 

 ment stand, when he was startled by 

 a loud cry. Turning around, his at- 

 tention was first attracted to a swan 

 struggling in the water at the upper 

 edge of the ice bridge, but on look- 

 ing toward the falls, he saw a great 

 company of swans in distress com- 

 ing toward the bridge. The scene that 

 followed was a sad one for any bird 

 lover to contemplate. 



These splendid birds, helpless after 

 their terrible plunge over thecataract, 

 w^>re dashed against the ice bridge by 



