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KEY TO THE BIRDS OF EASTERN NORTH AMERICA 



SUBFAMILY CYQNIN/E. 

 Swans. 



Bare skin, between the bill and eye ; tarsus, reticulate ; neck, very long ; 

 wing, over 19 inches long. 



General plumage, white ; bill, black with yellow spot (adult) ; distance from tip of bill 

 to nostril, less than distance from nostril to eye (immature birds are gray or brownish gray). 

 Common on some parts of the coast. Olor columbianus. Whistling Swan. 



See No. 13(5. 



General plumage, white; bill, black, showing no yellow; distance from tip of bill to 

 nostril, more than distance from nostril to eye. Chiefly found in the interior of North America ; 

 not common on the coast. Of or buccinator. Trumpeter Swan. 



See No. 137. 





Olor columbianus. 



General plumage, gray, or brownish gray ; birds of this description may be the 

 young of either of the above species, the difference in the distance from the bill to the eye 

 being characteristic as in the old birds. 



