CYGNUS BUCCINATOR?— ANSEU ALIJATUS. 619 



List of spccimen.1. 



2SS,ia(l.; Oaiii|) 2(), Tiuckco Meadows, Noviuhi, XovcmiIht Is, l,si;7. WCi 

 nunulow. I'S-H',;]— iL'i— <i;|-;}4_;U-4.i— 1 1. U|)!.i'r liult of iipper inaudible, l.row.i- 

 ish olivaceous- black, growing more brownish basally, tbis color continiiiiig in abroad 

 stripe over the lore to the eye ; shari)ly-defined stripe of pure lemon yellow above this, 

 on upper edge of bare loral space, and involving ujiper eyelid ; stripe of same on lower 

 edge of bare loral space, along angle of mouth, and continuing in a welldelincd stripe 

 along the commissure, termiually blending into the brownish of the mandible. Lower 

 mandible, i>ale lemon-yellow, deepest basally; strii)e of dusky brownish along ui)per 

 posterior portion. Iris, clear light sulphur-yellow ne.\l the pupil, shading exteriorly 

 into orange-brownish, this eucireled narrowly with black. Tarsi and toes, bright yel- 

 lowish-greeu. Claws, pale brown, dusky toward point. 



350, 9 «(/.; salt marshes, shore of Pyramid Lake, near mouth of Truckee, Decem- 

 ber 11, 1867. 2-14— 37— 11— 8i— 2g— 3i— ;5A— I^. Same remarks. 



Family ANATID^E— Swans, Geese, and Ducks.' 

 Cygnus buccinator.'? 



Trumpeter Sw.iii. 



Cygnufi buccinator, Ricuakdson, Fauua Bor. Am., II, 1831,46-1. — Baiiid, Birds 

 N. Am., 1858, 758; Cat. N. Am. Birds, 1859, No. 562.— CouES, Key, 1872, 

 281; Check List, 1873, No. 470; Birds N.W., 1874, 544. 



In December, 1867, Swans were exceedingly numerous in the vicinity 

 of Pyramid Lake, but as no specimens were obtained, we do not know 

 certainly wliether they were the Trumpeter or Whistler (6'. amcrkanus). 

 Their note was almost exactly like that of the Sand-hill Crane (Gnis cana- 

 densis). 



AnSER alb AT us. 

 Lesser Siiow-Goose. 



Amer alhatus, Cassin, Pr. Ac. Nat. Sci. Thilad., 18.56,41. — Baird, Birds N. Am., 



1858, 925 ; Cat. N. Am. Birds, 1859, No. 563a. 

 Anscr hypcrboreus var. albatus, CouES, Key, 1872, 282 ; Check List, 1873, No. 4S0a. 

 Anscr hypcrboreiiK. b. albatus, Couks, Birds N.W., 1874, 549. 

 Anscr hypcrboreus, IlENSllAW, 1875, 470 (?). 



This Goose, almost universally known as the " White Brant," was an 

 abundant winter visitant to the lakes of the Great Basin. 



• Our notes ou many of the Anatidae are necessarily very brief, from the fact that 

 they are more diflicult to observe than most other birds, except at certain times, when 

 the habits ot all the species ap[)eai- much the same. .Many of them are also migratory, 

 and thus were .seen only for a brief season. We must therefore pass by certain si)eeie3 

 without further remarks than to note the season wlion observed, or a few similar fact-s. 



