GAME BIRDS AND LARGER NON-GAME BIRDS 145 
to the man with a gun. This was especially the case when 
they were overtaken by adverse weather. J. H. Fleming 
has described * a great destruction of swans that took place 
in March, 1908, at Niagara Falls. One hundred and twenty- 
eight birds were taken out of a flock that were swept over 
the falls. On March 14 a flock of three or four hundred 
swans was seen floating down the river with the current, 
till danger of being swept into the Canadian rapids caused 
it to rise and fly to its starting-point. Below Horseshoe 
Falls the water was breasted by a struggling mass of swans. 
The majority of them were carried to the ice bridge and 
either cast up or ground against it by masses of floating 
ice. The destruction on this occasion was practically total. 
The Trumpeter Swan.—The breeding range of this species 
extends farther south than that of the whistling swan, and it 
is found in migration from Manitoba to British Columbia.t 
Like its near relative, it formerly wintered farther north 
than is the case to-day. The trumpeter has suffered more 
than the whistling swan on account of the greater prox- 
imity of its breeding-range to the regions in which settle- 
ment has taken place. 
The Migratory Birds Convention provides for a close 
season for ten years for swans in Canada and the United 
States, and it is to be hoped that the protection that is thus 
given to these fine birds in their northern breeding-grounds, 
in their wintering places in the South, and during their mi- 
gration will be a means of increasing their numbers. 
GEESE 
The Canada Goose—What sound is a more welcome 
herald of spring than the honking of the geese, what sight 
is more pleasing than the A-shaped flocks of these geese 
* The Auk, pp. 306-308, 1908. 
tIn 1920, trumpeter swans were discovered to be wintering in British 
Columbia and were “‘filmed.’”’ See Bulletin American Game Protective Associu- 
tion, April, 1921, p. 13. 
