THE WHITE-CRESTED CORMORANT. 841 
IN comparison with its whistling congener, the Trumpeter Swan is the 
larger, as it is everywhere the rarer bird. Audubon tells of one which was 
nearly ten feet in alar expanse, and which weighed above thirty-eight pounds. 
The names “Whistler” and “Trumpeter” are not meant to express a difference 
in kind in the notes of the two birds, so much as a difference in volume. The 
Whistler blows a penny trumpet and the Trumpeter a trombone. The pre- 
eminence of the latter as a musician is due to the fact that he keeps an extra 
coil of windpipe neatly tucked away within a convenient hollow of his 
breast-bone. 
There is no well authenticated instance of the recent occurrence of the 
Trumpeter Swan in Washington, altho Samuel N. Rhoads*, in 1892, surmised 
that half a dozen birds seen at Nisqually were of this species. Indeed, the 
entire Trumpeter tradition 1s now yellowed with age and speaks of a time 
when such wonders as wild swans were much more common. 
“The bird is undoubtedly an inhabitant of Washington and Oregon Ter- 
ritories. It is, like the preceding species, more abundant on the Columbia 
River than on Puget Sound. In the winter of 1853-54, I noticed immense 
flocks of Swans, apparently of this species, collected along the shores of the 
river mentioned, and spread out along the margin of the water for a distance 
varying from an eighth to a quarter of a mile” (Suckley )”. 
“Betore we left the Columbia, early in November, the Swans had begun 
to arrive from the North, and frequently while at Fort Vancouver their trum- 
peting call drew our attention to the long converging lines of these magnificent 
birds, so large and so snowy white, as they came from their northern nesting 
places, and screaming with delight at the appearance of the broad expanse of 
water, perhaps their winter home, descended into the Columbia” (Dr. J. S. 
Newberry )°. 
No. 341. 
WHITE-CRESTED CORMORANT. 
A. O. U. No. 120b. Phalacrocorax auritus cincinatus (Brandt). 
Synonyms.—\WESTERN DoOUBLE-CRESTED CORMORANT. SHAG. 
Description.—Adults in breeding plumage: General color glossy greenish 
black; the back and wings slaty brown, each feather bordered narrowly with 
greenish black; a tuft of narrow, filamentous, white feathers on each side of 
crown over and behind eye; tail of twelve feathers; bill yellow, blackening on 
culmen; gular sac and lores orange-yellow; eyelids and lining of mouth livid 
a. Proc. Acad. Nat. Sci. Phila. 1893, p. 35. 
b. Rep. Pac. R. R. Surv. XII., Book II., p. 249. 
cy Rep. Pac! Re Re Suny. Via, pt. LV; p: 100. 
