516 BIRDS — ANATID^. 



OEDER LAMELLIROSTEES. ANSERINE BIRDS. 



FAMILY ANATID^. GE E SE , DU CKS, ETC. 



Of moderate size ; the neck short, or, when lengthened, not accompanied by co-ordi- 

 nately lengthened legs, these being always shorter than the wing. Billstraight. Tibiae 

 feathered bslow. H-Tnd toe present, well developed, and fauotional, though short. 



Subfamily Cygninje. Swans. 



Skin between eye and bill naked ; tarsi reticulate ; sexes alike; size very large. Neck 

 very long. 



Genus CYGNUS. Linnoous. 

 Characters of sub-family. 



Cygnus buccinnator Richardson. 



Trumpeter S^van. 



Cygnus lucc'mnator, Wheatox, Ohio Agrio. Rep. for 1360,369, 378; Reprint, 1861, 11, 

 20 ; Food of Birds, etc., Ohio Agrio. Rep. for 1674, 574 ; Reprint, 1875, 14. — COUES, 

 Birds of N. W., 1874, 545.— LaiSGDON, Cat. Birds of Cin., 1877, 16; Revised List, 

 Journ. Cin. Soo. Nat. Hist., i, 187U, 185 ; Reprint, 19. 



Cygnus buccinnator, Richardson, Fn. Bor-Am., ii, 1831, 464. 



Adult plumage entirely white; younger, the head and neck washed with a rusty- 

 brown ; still younger, gray or ashy. Bill aid feet black. Length, 4-5 feet. Tail 

 (normally) of twenty- fjur feathers. No yellow spots on bill, which is rather longer 

 than the head, the nostrils faiily in its baeal half. 



Habitat, chiefly the Mississippi Valley, and northward to the Paoiflo. Hudson's 

 Bay. Canada. Casually on the Atlantic coast. Breeds from Iowa and Dakota north- 

 ward. In winter south to the Gulf. Said to have occurred in England. 



Rare migrant and winter visitor. The Trumpeter Swan was first 

 mentioned as an Ohio bird by myself in 1861, on the authority of Mr. 

 Winslow, who informed me that it was occasionally taken at Sandusky 

 Bay and other points on the lake shore. Mr. Langdon records one speci- 

 men taken and three seen on the Ohio River, near Cincinnati, in Decem- 

 ber, 1876, and informs me the captured specimen is preserved by M. 

 Wocher, Esq. 



Cygnus ameeicanus Sharpless. 



WliisHing Swan. 



Cygnus rmtsicus, Kirtlakd, Ohio Geolog. 8urv., 1838, 166, 187. 



Cygnus amirkanua, Wiikaton, Ohio Agrio. Rep. for 18G0, 369 ; Reprinr,, 1861, 11 ; Food of 

 Birds, etc., Ohio Agrir. Rop. for 1874, 574 ; Reprint, l'i7,'>, 14.— LANGno.v, Cat. Biids 

 of Cin., 1877, 16 ; Revised List, Journ. Cin. Soo. Nat, Hist., i, 1879 ; Reprint, 14. 



Cygnus musicus, Bonapakte, Syn., 1823, 379. 



Cygnus ama-icanua, Sharpless, Doughty's Cab. N. H, i, 1830, 185. 



