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  XEW 
  YORK 
  STATE 
  MUSEUM 
  

  

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

  

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

  

  Northwestern 
  Pa. 
  Mar. 
  22, 
  1879. 
  Sennett, 
  N. 
  O. 
  C. 
  Bui. 
  5: 
  127 
  

  

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

  

  Seneca 
  river, 
  N. 
  Y. 
  Apr. 
  1880. 
  Fowler, 
  Wright 
  & 
  Rathbun, 
  0. 
  & 
  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). 
  

  

  Butcher, 
  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). 
  

  

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

   Becrfield, 
  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 
  Bee. 
  24, 
  1901. 
  Braislin, 
  Auk, 
  20: 
  52 
  

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

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

  

  Times 
  

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

  

  Manitou, 
  Monroe 
  co., 
  N. 
  Y. 
  Nov. 
  2, 
  1905. 
  John 
  West, 
  Bemocrat 
  & 
  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 
  faixious 
  for 
  the 
  unprecedented 
  migration 
  

   of 
  swans 
  in 
  w^estern 
  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 
  1 
  00 
  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 
  

  

  