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It was unable to stand on its feet 

 or to use its wings, and was taken in 

 that condition to Buffalo, and placed 

 under the care of the curator of the 

 Zoo in Delaware Park. It quicklj' re- 

 covered from its bruises and shock, 

 and now (March 25th). may be seen 

 floating gracefully on Park Lake. 



On March 22nd I went again to the 

 Falls, and saw five more swans that 

 had just been taken by LeBlond, 

 while six had been picked up at Bass 

 Rock eddy early that morning. Three 

 others were seen in the gorge but were 

 able to mount into the air and fly over 

 the falls to the upper river. I went 

 up the river to the historic village 

 of Chippewa, hoping to find a rem- 

 nant of this swan brigade, but there 

 was not one to be seen on the river 

 below Xavy Island . A flock, various- 

 ly estimated to number 20 to 60 indi- 

 viduals had been seen by a number 



of people the day before. I was un- 

 able to learn that any swans had been 

 shot above the Falls, although they 

 had been seen there almost every day 

 for a week. 



Rev. .J. Hibbert Langille in his book, 

 "Our Birds in Their Haunts," tells of 

 finding a dead swan on the shore of 

 Lake Ontario at the mouth of John- 

 son's Creek, which he says, "by some 

 means unknown, had perished in the 

 course of its long migration." I have 

 little doubt that it met death in the 

 cataract of Niagara. 



Mr. L. J. Davison says in his "Bii'ds 

 of Niagara County, N. Y.," nearly ev- 

 ery season a number of this species 

 (Whistling Swan) are taken in a 

 wounded condition in Niagara River, 

 below the falls. They are probably 

 wounded in flying into the falls dur- 

 ing storms while migrating during 

 the night. I have also been told that 



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