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on their long journey to the south. One that was shot 

 proved to be a whistling swan, Olor columbianus. 

 Most of them remained but a single day, though some 

 were around as late as Dec. 11. 



Mr. August Fettel says that every March many 

 swans on their way north pass to the east of San- 

 dusk\s and that in the spring of 1887 when he was 

 working on the pavillion at Cedar Point, he saw "one 

 continuous string of swans flying only thirty or forty 

 feet above the water for two hours. There must have 

 been thousands of them." 



Mr. Dildyne, keeper of the club-house at the West 

 Huron marsh, says he has not seen so many swans 

 before in the fall for ten years but that there were more 

 last spring and he usually sees more in spring than in 

 the fall. Mr. Ritter keeper of the range-light at the 

 entrance to Sandusky Bay, also saw more last spring. 



Canada geese appeared in great numbers this fall 

 the same day as the swans. There may have been two 

 thousand of them and as many sw^ans on Sandusky 

 Bay, Nov. 25th. Many of the geese were still there 

 Dec. 18; and some may remain all winter, as they did 

 two years ago. 



Before sunrise, April 11th 1896, occurred a thunder- 

 shower at Sandusky with a warm wind from the 

 south-east. I had seen no yellow-bellied sapsuckers 

 earlier in the season but that morning they were 

 numerous. Seventy-five, it is said, were seen in a single 

 yard at one time and there must have been thousands 

 in the city. In the country, where I spent most of the 

 day, I saw no sapsuckers. M}^ earliest record for these 

 birds in 1894, is April 7th; in 1898, April 7; in 1895, 

 April 8th; in 1891 and 1899, April 10th. In 1896 

 they came with the warm wind of April 11th, and 

 stopped in Sandusky for liquid refreshments before at- 

 tempting to cross the lake. These sapsuckers ap- 

 parently take no solid food while they are wnth us. 



April 1st 1892, Captain Haas was detained on 

 Rattlesnake Island by a dense fog. Wherever he 



