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Pleasant Valley, March 26, 1903, by Carl Spencer" (Anderson). 

 Ivce — "rare migrant" (Praeger). Linn — "rare migrant" (Berry). 

 Pottawattamie — Mills — "rare migrant" (Trostler). Polk — "mi- 

 grant" (Johnson). Poweshiek — "rare transient" (Kelsey, Jones). 

 Washington — mounted two males shot near Brighton, Nov. 7, 

 1905 (Anderson). Webster — "transient" (Somes). Winnebago 

 — saw one which was shot near Forest City, April 6th, 1894 

 (Anderson); "one shot near Iceland by Rudolph Isaacs" (Halvor- 

 sen). Woodbury — "uncommon transient; I have the bird' ' (Rich). 

 Harrison — "specimen in University museum, 5163, shot at Ball's 

 Lake, near California Junction, by Wm. Olinger, April 5, 1886" 

 (Anderson). There is also a specimen shot at Whiting, March 

 30, 1886. 



The Whistling Swan may be distinguished by having a spot of 

 yellow on the lores, and distance from eye to nostril greater than 

 the distance from the nostril to the tip of the bill. 



65. (181). Olor bHcci?iafor {Rxch.). Trumpeter Swan. 



At the present time the Trumpeter Swan is a rare bird in Iowa. 

 During the early days the species undoubtedly nested in Iowa, 

 though probably not commonly. A great many authorities have 

 given the Trumpeter Swan as "breeding from Iowa northward," 

 but there is little definiteness about the records. (Snow, Bds. of 

 Kan., 1873, ii; Coues, Bds. of N. W., 1874, 544; Krider, Forty 

 Yrs. Notes, 1879, 70; Ridgway, Cat. Aqu. and Fish-eating Bds., 

 1883, 19; Baird, Brewer and Ridgway, N. A. Bds., 1884, i, 430; 

 Cooke, Bd. Migr. in Miss. Val., 1884-5, 79; Keyes and Williams, 

 Bds. of Iowa, 1889, 119; Coues, Key to N. A. Bds., 1887, 682; A. 

 O. U. Check List, 1886, 130; Goss, Bds. Kan., 1891, 108; Chap- 

 man, Bds. of East. N. A., 1903, 124; Bailey, Bds. of West. N. A., 

 1902, 70). 



W. W. Cooke states: "Breeds from Iowa and Minnesota north- 

 ward. It was reported breeding near Newton, Iowa, and at Heron 

 Lake, Minn., as well as along the Red River of the North" (Bird 

 Migr. in Miss. Val., 1884-5, .79)- 



The only definite record of the nesting of the Trumpeter Swan 

 in Iowa which I have been able to trace was received from the 

 veteran collector, J. W. Preston, in a letter dated March 22, 1904: 

 "A pair of 'Trumpeters' reared a brood of young in a slough near 



