° 1915 ] Coale, The Trumpeter Swan. 89 



reports: "So far as I know the Trumpeter Swan has never been 

 taken in this state, though the Whistling Swan is quite plentiful 

 on Carrituck Sound in winter. I saw hundreds if not thousands of 

 them in January, 1914." 



Prof. Wm. C. Mills, Curator Museum of the Archaeological and 

 Historical Society of Ohio, at Columbus, states : " We have in our 

 collection a great many bones of the Trumpeter Swan. It seems 

 that this bird, although a very rare migrant at the present time, 

 was here in great numbers in pre-historic time, and we find their 

 bones in the villages of the old Indians, who always used the leg 

 bones for making implements, while the wing bones were seldom 

 used. I found specimens in the Baum, Bartner and Madisonville 

 village sites." 



Dr. Joseph Grinnell, states that he has "no knowledge of its 

 occurrence in California in recent years : in fact I know of no speci- 

 mens in any California collection." 



Mr. F. C. Lincoln, Colorado Museum of Natural History at 

 Denver, says : " It can only be considered a straggler in Colorado. 

 The one mentioned by W. L. Sclater in his 'Birds of Colorado' 

 as a representative of this form, is a Whistling Swan." 



Dr. L. B. Bishop, New Haven, Conn., writes: "The only Trum- 

 peter in my collection is an adult male, shot at upper Stillwater 

 Lake, Mont., March 11, 1902, No. 25378 of my collection. It was 

 bought for me by Mr. E. S. Cameron of the owner, Miss G. M. 

 Duncan of Whitefish, Mont." 



Dr. Leonard C. Sanford, New Haven, Conn., writes: "I have in 

 my collection three Trumpeter Swans which I purchased as young 

 birds from a dealer, who got them from Montana, but declined to 

 give me the exact locality. They are positively identified by 

 Chapman and Hornaday." 



Mr. John E. Thayer, Lancaster, Mass., writes: "I bought a pair 

 of live Trumpeter Swans three years ago, that were taken from the 

 nest in Montana. The male died last autumn and I had him made 

 into a skin. I have a magnificent mounted specimen that a friend 

 gave me, but he did not know where it came from. I think it is 

 one of the rarest." 



It was my good fortune to procure from Mr. Charles Dury, the 

 veteran taxidermist of Cincinnati, a beautifully prepared skin of the 



