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p. 26), Mr. Allen could "point to no recent record of 

 its actual capture " in Massachusetts. The first actual 

 capture recorded of late years is probably that given by 

 Mr. Brewster, who speaks of one taken on Coskata 

 Pond, Buzzard's Bay, Nantucket, March 4, 1878, by Mr. 

 F. P. Chadwick (Bull. Nutt. Club, iii, 1878, p. 198). 

 The sanje excellent authority also notes one supposed 

 and one authentic occurrence, the latter at Seabrook, 



Fig. 61. — American Swan. 



N. H., Oct. 18, 1878 (Bull. Nutt. Club, iv, 1879, P- 125). 

 Dr. Brewer speaks of another specimen, in the Boston 

 Natural History Society's collection, which he has no 

 doubt was shot about 1865, at Nahant (Pr. Bost. Soc. 

 Nat. Hist., XX, 1879, p. 274). Mr. Newton Dexter gives 

 a Rhode Island case (Forest and Stream, xiii, 1879, p. 

 848). Mr. Elisha Slade, of Somerset, Mass., saw there 

 a flight of five Swans, Oct. 16, 1880 (Bull. Nutt. Club, 

 vi, 1881, p. 123). These comprise all the instances 

 which have come to our knowledge. 



