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Mount Morris, N. Y. Apr. 1875. Fraine. Forest and Stream, 4: 199 



Cayuga, N. Y. Spring 1875. Fowler. Forest and Stream, 7: 230 



Xorthwcstern Pa. Mar. 22, 1879. Sennett, N. 0. C. Bui. 5: 127 



Southwestern N. Y. (Numbers brought down by sleet storm and captured) 



Seneca river, N. Y. Apr. 1880. Fowler, Wright & Rathbun, O. & O. 7: 133 



Highland Falls, N. Y. Oct. 21, 1880. Mearns List 



Shinnecock bay, L. I. Nov. 26, 1886. Forest and Stream, 27: 364. Butcher, Auk, 



Medina, N. Y. Spring 1886. Posson 



Lockport, N. Y. Mar. 20, 1886. Cook, Biological Survey Bui. 26 



Reed pond, Montauk, L. I. Nov. 5, 1886. (Juvenal). (Shot by George Hand). 



Dutcher, Auk, 5: 176 

 Branchport, N. Y. Mar. 31, 1888. (3). Verdi Burtch 

 Niagara co., N. Y. Below Niagara Falls. Mar. 30, 1889. (Several each season). 



Davison, Forest and Stream, 30, 34, 32: 295 

 Dccrficld, Oneida co., N. Y. Mar. 13, 1890. Ralph & Bagg, Auk, 7: 230 

 Cayuga, N. Y. (About) Nov. 1894. Foster Parker, E. H. Eaton collection 

 Scarboro, N. Y. Late Nov. 1897. Gerald Thayer 

 Irondequoit bay, N. Y. Apr. 2, 1898. State Museum collection 

 Honeoye lake, N. Y. Early Apr. 1898. (3 birds seen). Wallace Reed 

 Flatlands, L. L Dec. 24, 1901. Braislin, Auk, 20: 52 

 Buffalo, N. Y. "Repeatedly shot." Ottomar Reinecke 

 Canandaigua lake, N. Y. Mar. 25, 1905. (12). George B. Dixon, Ontario County 



Times 

 Keuka lake, N. Y. Nov. i, 1905. (5). C. F. Stone 



Manitou, Monroe co., N. Y. Nov. 2, 1905. John West, Democrat & Chronicle 

 Rush, Monroe co., N. Y. Mar. 27, 1907. John S. Gray, Post Express 

 Canandaigua, N. Y. Mar. 20, 1907. (28). Foster Burtis 



The month of March 1908 was famous for the unprecedented migration 

 of swans in western New York, and for the catastrophe which befell the 

 birds on Niagara river. On March 17th, 12 swans were reported from 

 Montezuma, and, on the i8th, 118 were seen at Mud Lock near Cayuga. 

 These birds did not arrive in a single flock but "came in" in bunches of 15 

 or 20, and left sometime in the evening. On March 14th about 350 swans 

 lit in the Niagara river near Grand Island, and on the 15th, about 1 1.30 a. m., 

 more than 100 of them were swept over the falls and were taken from the 

 river below the falls. Many of them would have survived but were killed 

 b}^ clubs and guns. On the i8th three more were killed, and on the 2 2d 

 12 more. This great slaughter of whistling swans was reported in the 



