86 Coale, The Trumpeter Swan. [ Jan 



Beyer, Allison and Kopman in their Birds of Louisiana (Auk, 

 Vol. XXIV, 1907), " In the past this species has proved commoner 

 than the preceding (C. americanus) especially about the mouth of 

 the Mississippi." 



J. Claire Wood (Auk, Vol. XXV, 1908) reports for Michigan, 

 "One specimen in the City market in Nov. 1893, was taken near 

 Wind Mill Point, Lake St. Clair, according to the statement of 

 Thomas Swan." 



In E. H. Eaton's 'Birds of New York' (1909), he illustrates the 

 bills of both swans, side and top view, showing the difference in 

 shape, and position of the nostrils. He remarks, "I have been 

 unable to find any New York specimen of this swan." 



McCoun's 'Catalogue of Canadian Birds' (1909) records: "A 

 pair found breeding at Buffalo Lake, Alberta, Apr. 7, 1891, nest 

 contained 5 eggs." 



Audubon in his ' Birds of America,' devotes seven pages to the 

 Trumpeter Swan, giving a very complete and interesting history 

 of its movements and habits, from personal observation of the birds 

 on the Ohio and Mississippi Rivers and at New Orleans. He also 

 illustrates the adult, and the young about two thirds grown, drawn 

 from nature, showing it in slaty bluish plumage, head light brown, 

 and legs yellowish brown. 



E. W. Nelson (Report of Nat. Hist. Survey made in Alaska 1887) 

 says: "a specimen of this little known swan is noted by Dall as 

 having been secured with its nest and eggs at Fort Yukon by Mr. 

 Lockhart, thus rendering it an Alaskan species." 



Elliott Coues (Birds of the North West) says : " Chiefly from the 

 Mississippi Valley and northward to the Pacific, Hudson's Bay, 

 Canada, etc." 



R. M. Anderson in ' Birds of Iowa ' (Proc. Davenport Academy 

 of Sciences, 1907) says: "The only definite breeding record which 

 I have been able to trace is from the veteran collector, J. W. Pres- 

 ton, in a letter dated March 22, 1904 . . . . ' a pair of Trumpeter 

 swans reared a brood of young in a slough near Little Twin Lakes, 

 Hancock Co., in the season of 1883. This was positively Olor 

 buccinator.'" 



W. C. Knight in his 'Birds of Wyoming' gives two or three 

 records, the last being a bird taken by Mr. Van Dyke, at Lake De 

 Smet in the Spring of 1897. 



