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hundred years ago. It became very rare in the early part of the 
nineteenth century, being practically extirpated in the ’30’s. A 
few lingered however in the wilder districts about Mounts Tom 
and Holyoke, and the last specimen actually known to have been 
captured in the State was shot on Mount Tom in the winter of 
1850—’51. It has also been reported as seen on Mount Holyoke 
as late as 1863, when one was said to have been flushed by a hunt- 
ing party.’ Baird, Brewer and Ridgway record it as having been 
shot at Montague and in other towns in Franklin County “ within a 
few years,” z. ¢. prior to 1874. 
2. Grus americana (Linn.). WHoopinc Crane. — This 
species occurred without doubt at the time of the settlement of 
the State. Emmons includes it in his 1833 list asa “rare but 
_ regular visitant.” 
3. Grus mexicana (Miill.). SawpHILL CRANE. — This spe- 
cies probably occurred with the preceding. 
4. Olor buccinator (Rich.). TRUMPETER Swan. — This 
species is generally believed to have occurred in the State about 
two hundred years ago. 
EXORINCY SPECIES:% 
1. Plautus impennis (Linn.). Grear AuKk.— Formerly of 
undoubted occurrence along our shores. Among the shell-heaps at 
Ipswich, fragments of its bones have been found. Gosnold alludes 
to its presence on Cape Cod at the time of his explorations in 1602, 
and an old gunner, residing at Chelsea Beach assured Audubon 
that he ‘“ well remembered the time when the Penguins were 
plentiful about Nahant, and some other islands in the bay.” 
2. Camptolzmus labradorius (Gmel.). Laprapor Duck. 
— Formerly a not uncommon winter visitant, but very rare during 
1 Pierce; Forest & Stream, Vol. XX XIII, p. 46. 
* Allen; Bull. Nutt. Orn. Club, Vol. I, No. 3, Sept., 1876, pp. 53-60. 
