430 



LAMELLIROSTRAL SWIMMERS — ANSERES. 



Sylvie's valley, in the Blue Mountains, their trumpetings were heard as late as May 

 29. They feed on the small bulbous roots of a water-plant growing near the shores of 

 the lake. He thinks that uone breed there, and that only disabled ones remain on the 

 Oregon lakes in the summer. 



Specimens of this Swan were procured by Mr. Kennicott on the Porcupine Kiver, 

 and others by Mr. J. Eeid on Big Island. They were obtained on the Anderson and 

 Swan rivers, as also on the Barren Grounds and the islands in Franklin Bay, in the 

 Arctic Ocean, by Mr. MacFarlane. 



The eggs of this species — those from Anderson Kiver as well as those from the 

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

 unsjjotted buffy white color, becoming yellowish wlien exposed to the weather. Three 

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

 and 4.25 by 2.65. 



Olor buccinator. 



THE TRUMPETER SWAN. 



Cygnus buccinator, Rich. F. B. A. II. 1831, 464 (Hudson's Bay). — Nutt. Man. II. 1834, 370.— 

 AUD. Orn. Biog. IV. 1838, 536 ; V. 1839, 114, pis. 406, 376 ; Synop. 1839, 74 ; B. Am. VI. 

 1843, 219, pi. 382, 383. — Baikd, B. N. Am. 1858, 758; Cat. N. Am. B. 1859, no. 562. — 

 CouES, Key, 1872, 281 ; Check List, 1873, no. 476; 2d ed. 1882, no. 688; Birds N. W. 1874, 

 ,^44. 



Olor buccinator, Wagl. Isis, 1832, 1234. — Ridgw. Nom. N. Am. B. 1881, no. 589. — Stejn. Proe. 

 U. S. Nat. Mus. Vol. 3, 1S82, 216. 



Cygnus Pasmorci, H1NOK.S, Pr. Linn. Soc. VIII. 1864, 1 (Toronto) ; P. Z. S. 1868, 211. — Moore, 

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



Hab. Chiefly the interior of North America, from tlie Gulf coast to the Fur Countries, breed- 

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

 Accidental in England. 



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

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



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Bill, naked lores, legs, and feet, uniform deep lilack ; iris brown. Young : " In winter the young 

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

 flesh-color, and a large elonf».ated patch of light dull purple on each side ; the ed^e of the lower 

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



