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It is not common in the valley and I have only taken it in the fall. I have 
also shot it east of the Cascades. Mr. Brewster wrote me when I sent him 
typical minima that they were the first undoubted examples of that bird 
he had received, and that he believed the majority of skins in other col- 
lections labeled minima were only hutchinsi. 
48. Olorcolumbianus. WduisTLINc Swan.— At times large numbers 
visit Sumas Lake usually in the late fall. I found they decoyed very 
readily to an imitation of their call. 
49. Olor buccinator. TRUMPETER Swan.— Much scarcer than the 
last and I have only shot one in this district. 
50. Olor sp?—In the spring of 1890 I examined a mounted swan in 
the shop of Mr. Wm. Hall that had been killed the preceding winter on 
Sumas Lake. It was an adult, a very small bird with the basal third of 
the bill yellow. I took it for the Whistling Swan. The other swans I 
had handled up to this time were considerably larger and had no yellow 
at the base of the bill. There was one of these in Mr. Hall’s shop at the 
same time. Later I found that these black-billed Swans were only 
Whistlers as I did not shoot the true Trumpeter until the spring of 
1895. 
On November 5, 1894, large numbers of Whistling Swans were on Sumas 
Lake — about a dozen large flocks. Near them but always keeping sepa- 
rate were three swans of a very much smaller size, an adult and two young. 
The cygnets were very dark, the necks especially so. On the mud flat 
at a little distance one only saw the white bird. I spent the entire day 
trying to get a shot at these. Ultimately I got up to within about two 
hundred yards and after watching the birds through my glass for a little 
while I fired and missed them, the bullet ploughing up the mud under the 
adult. Next day the Whistlers were still on the lake but the small swans 
had gone. Several times I had the latter in view close to a flock of Whistlers 
and the difference in size was very noticeable, also there were no cygnets 
among the Whistlers anything like as dark as the small swans. There is 
no doubt that these small birds, as well as the bird in Hall’s shop (which 
I was later unable to trace), belonged to one of the small Asiatic species. 
Swans have been protected at all seasons in British Columbia for the 
last ten years or so, so it is doubtful if a specimen of this interesting 
straggler will ever be taken in the Province. 
51. Plegadis guarana. Wuuttr-racep Guossy Ipis.— One specimen, 
a young bird, was shot some time in the summer of 1902 on the Luck-a- 
cuck River. This bird is now in the museum at Victoria. 
52. Botaurus lentiginosus. Birrern.— Common summer resident. 
I have seen several in mid-winter about 50 miles down the Fraser River 
from Sumas. 
53. Ardea herodias fannini. NorrawesTterN HEeron.— Common 
resident but did not breed in the valley in my time. Mr. Outram Bangs 
informs me that skins I sent to him were typical of this form. 
54. Grus canadensis. Lirrne Brown Crane.— Spring and fall 
migrant. 
