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THE TRUMPETER SWAN. 
(CyGnus BuccINATorR.) 
Rejected from the B.O.U. List, 
Rejected by Saunders. 
Rejected by Seebohm, 
I have the egg taken by Mr. J. H. Adams on the Ander- 
son River, June 27th, 1882; the nest, with four eggs, 
was placed _on the ground; the colour is similar to ‘ C. 
Olor,’ greenish white, it is much stained; the dimensions 
4.27 by 2.94 inches. 
THE BLACK SWAN. 
(CyGnus ATRATUS.) 
This bird is altogether omitted. 
Ifthe accounts becorrect: and Gray’s authority valid: 
as it seems very improbable that this bird should ever 
have escaped from confinement i# a flock there have 
probably been genuine occurrences. 
Gray says, in his “ Birds of Scotland,” that ove, from 
among some other Black Swans, was shot on Loch 
Lomond, in the winter of 1828-9. 
That another was shot near Tunellan in 1863, which 
is in the Hunterian Museutn, Glasgow. 
And that Mr. Cliff, when duck shooting at night 
near Brechin, shot @ ¢hird from among a flock of Black 
Swans, flying overhead, strong on the wing. 
A fourth was shot at Coupar Angus, in November, 
1867. 
My eggs not quite so large as those of ‘Olor’ are, as 
might be expected from a dark species, of a deeper green 
than the eggs of the White Swan; they were laid in 
confinement. 
