88 Coale, The Trumpeter Swan. [j^. 



The U. S. National Museum has seven skins and one mounted 

 specimen. Those with data are: 



No. 5476 cf. Yellowstone, Wyo., Aug. 22, 1856, F. V. Hayden. 

 " 19963 Ad. Fort Resolution, Can., May 24, 1860, R. Kennicott. 

 " 62367 Ad. cf . Snake River, Ida., Sept. 23, 1873, Dr. C. H. 



Merriam. 

 " 70317 Ad. d\ St. Clair Flats, Mich., Nov. 20, 1875, W. H. 

 Collins. 

 No. 81290 Ad. d" . Lake Koshkonong, Wis., Apr. 20, 1880, Thure" 

 Kumlein. 



Another Wisconsin record is an adult male hanging as "dead 

 game " in a local billiard hall in Chicago. It was shot in Waukesha 

 Co. in February, 1904, by Dr. F. S. Crocker. 



The only Mexican record, is a specimen in the Museum of Com- 

 parative Zoology at Cambridge, which was shot by F. B. Armstrong 

 at Matamoras, Tamaulipas, Mexico, January 21, 1909 (see Phillips, 

 Auk, Vol. X. p. 72). No. 49836, 9 . "There is also in the mu- 

 seum an adult (mounted), from the Greene Smith collection, and a 

 chick labeled 0. buccinator, with no data" (Bangs — letter June, 

 1914). 



In the Government Museum, Banff, Alta., Can., Dr. N. B. 

 Sanson, states that there is "One specimen from Manitoba, 1887." 



From the Public Museum of Milwaukee, Director Henry L. 

 Ward, writes : " Our only specimen was received from the Wisconsin 

 Natural History Society, with no data except "Wisconsin." 



Prof. R. M. Bagg, Lawrence College, Appleton, Wis., has kindly 

 sent me photos of two mounted specimens in the museum, which 

 have no data. 



Prof. Lynds Jones, Oberlin College, Ohio, writes: "There is a 

 specimen in the collection received from J. C. Catlin, late of Ra- 

 venna, Ohio, about which it is stated that it was collected there- 

 abouts in the '80s." 



P. A. Taverner, Government Survey Museum, Ottawa, Can., 

 writes: "We have but one specimen in the Museum, a mounted 

 bird, killed on the St. Clair Flats in 1884. 



Mr. J. H. Fleming of Toronto, writes, " I have one Trumpeter 

 Swan, shot about 1878 on Lake St. Clair, on the Toronto side." 



Dr. H. H. Brimley, Curator State Museum, Raleigh, N. C, 



