100 ZOOLOGY. 



LIMOSA FEDOA. 



God wit. 



Very common about San Francisco in the winter, and is always to be found in the market. 

 It is also common on the Columbia near its mouth, and I received a specimen from Lieutenant 

 Trowbridge, U. S. A., killed at Cape Flattery, W. T. 



SCOLOPAX WILSONI. 



Wilson s Snipe. 



Wilson s snipe is shot in considerable numbers about San Francisco, and is constantly in the 

 market during the autumn and winter. We saw them on the shores of Klamath lake, and at 

 various points along our line of march. 



SCOLOPAX GRISEA. 



Eed-breasted Snipe. 



This species, though less common than the last, is found occasionally in California and 

 Oregon. 



CYGNUS BUCCINATOR. 



Trumpeter Swan. 



The trumpeter swan visits California and Oregon with its congeners, the ducks and geese, in 

 their annual migrations, but, compared with the myriads of other water birds which congregate 

 at that season in the bays and rivers of the west, it is always rare. Before we left the 

 Columbia, early in November, the swans had begun to arrive from the north, and frequently 

 while at Fort Vancouver their trumpeting call drew our attention to the long converging lines 

 of these magnificent birds, so large and so snowy white, as they came from their northern nest 

 ing places, and, screaming their delight at the appearance of the broad expanse of water, 

 perhaps their winter home, descended into the Columbia. 



CYGNUS AMERICANUS. 

 Common Swan. 



This bird, considerably smaller than the last, is perhaps more common at the west. In Cali 

 fornia swans are much less common than on the Columbia, where, during the winter season at 

 least, they are exceedingly abuudant. 



BERNICLA CANADENSIS. 

 The Canada Goose. 



The Canada goose, with several other species, becomes incalculably numerous in the valleys of 

 California during the wet season. Some approach to this abundance of wild fowl is annually 

 witnessed by the inhabitants of the prairie region of the valley of the Mississippi ; but any 

 exhibition of the kind which takes place in Illinois or Iowa is far surpassed by that of the 



