430 



LAMELLIROSTIIAL SWIMMERS — AXSERES. 



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Sylvie's valley, in the Jilue Mountains, tlu'ii' tnuuiu'tings were heard as hate as May 

 21). They feed on tin- small bulbous loots of a water-plant growing near the shores of 

 the lake. ...' thinks that none breed there, and that only disabled ones remain on the 

 Oregon lakes in the summer. 



Specimens of this Swan were procured by Air. Kennieott on the l'or('ui)ine Kiver, 

 and others by Mr. J. l{«'id on Itig Island. Tliey were obtained on the Anderson and 

 Swan rivers, as also on the IJarren CJrounds and the islands in Franklin liay, in the 

 Arctic Ocean, by Mr. MacFarlane. 



The eggs of this sjjecies — those from Anderson liiver as well as those from the 

 Yukon — are all alike, and vary Imt little in size or color. They are of a uniform 

 unspotted buft'y white (;olor, becoming yellowish wlien exjmsed to tl'.e weather. Three 

 of these eggs furnish the following lueasurcments : 4.05 inches by 2.55, 4.25 by 2.80, 

 and 4.25 by 2.65. 



Olor buccinator. 



THE TRVMPETEB BWAN. 



Cijgnus huceinatnr. Rich. ?. B. A. II. 1831, 4ti4 (Hudson's Hay). — Xctt. Mnn. II. 1834, 37ft.— 

 All.. Om. Biog. IV. 1838, ,036; V. 183!t, 114, j.ls 400, 376; .Syiioi.. 183!», 74; B. Am. VI. 

 1843, 2111, pi. 3»-.>, 383. Baikd, B. N. Am. 1858, 758; Cat. N. Am. B. 18.W, no. 562. - 

 CouES, Key, 1872, 281 ; ('lit-ck List, 1873, iio. 470; 2<1 f«l. 1882, no. 688; Birds N. \V. 1874, 

 544. 



Olor hiicciua'nr, \Va(;l. Isi.s, 1832, 1234. — KiDGW. Nom. N. Am. B. 1881, no. 58». — .Ste.in. Proc 

 U. S. Nut. Mils. Vol. 3, 1882, 216. 



Cygniis Pusmorci, IIinck.s, IV. I.inn. Soc VIII. 1864, 1 (" iionto) ; P. Z. S. 1868, 211. — Mookk, 

 P. Z. S. 1867, 8 (critical). 



Hab. Chiefly the interior of North America, from the (Julf I'ou.it to the Fur Couiitriea, breed- 

 ing from Iowa and Dakota northward ; west to tlic Pacific coast, but rare or canual on the Atlantic. 

 Accidental in England. 



Sp. Char. Tail of usually 24 feathers; bill longer than the head. Adult: Plumage entirely 

 pure white, the head, sometimes the neck also, or even the entire lower ])arts, tinged with rusty. 



Bill, naked lores, legs, and feet, uniform deep black ; iris brown. Younrj: " In winter the yonn;,' 

 has je bill black, with the middle portion of the ridge, to the length of an inch and a half, light 

 flesh-color, and a large elongated patch of light dull purjjle on each side ; the edge of the lower 

 mandible and the tongue dull yellowish flesh-color. The eve is dark brown. The feet are dull yel- 





