19X5 J Coale, The Trumpeter Swan. 87 



One of the most interesting replies to my inquiries is from Mr. 

 E. S. Cameron of Marsh, Montana (April 30, 1914). He writes: 

 "Twenty years ago Trumpeter Swans were common in Montana, 

 and used regularly to winter here, but are now on the verge of ex- 

 tinction. It is generally stated by the Kootenai Indians that they 

 bred in the Flathead Valley up to the first immigration of whites in 

 1886; but the latest positive record of Trumpeters nesting is in 

 1881. These swans nested at Lake Rodgers, 20 miles west of 

 Kalispell, at Swan Lake, and on the east side of Flathead Lake, 

 and on the lakes which drain Clearwater, a branch of the Big 

 Blackfoot River. An adult male Trumpeter was shot at the mouth 

 of Flathead River, Nov. 16, 1910. It weighed 31 pounds. Another 

 similar bird was killed by an Indian on St. Mary's Lake in the fall of 

 1912. This was the largest Trumpeter ever killed in Montana, and 

 would have approached, if it did not equal, Audubon's record bird 

 of 38 pounds in weight. A young female Trumpeter under two 

 years old, weight 20 pounds full, was shot at Cut Bank, Teton Co., 

 on Nov. 10, 1913." 



Mr. C. W. Beebe records seventeen specimens as having been in 

 the New York Zoological Park from 1899 to 1910, "three from 

 Idaho, six from Salt Lake City, one from Lewiston, Maine (Nov. 

 25, 1901, found exhausted) and seven without data. At present 

 one survives." 



Through the courtesy of Mr. Frank C. Baker of the Chicago 

 Academy of Sciences I am able to give measurements of the fine 

 mounted Trumpeter in the Academy Museum (Plate VII). It is 

 an adult male and was shot on the Columbia River, three miles 

 west of Portland, Oregon, April 8, 1881. The bird is pure white, 

 except the forehead and crown which are washed with rusty color. 

 It stands 44 inches high. The wing measures 26 inches, tail of 24 

 feathers 9.5 in., tarsus 4.5 in., middle tcl. 7 in., eye to tip of bill 

 5.25 in., nostril to tip of bill 2 in. 



A Whistling Swan in the same collection measured for compari- 

 son, gives wing, 22 in., tail 9 in., eye to tip of bill 4.4 in., tarsus 

 4 in., mid. tcl. 6.5 inc., nostril to tip of bill 1.5 in. 



The Field Museum of Natural History, has three young Trumpe- 

 ters from one to two and one half years old, presented by Judge 

 R. M. Barnes, who had them alive. They are without data. 



