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of them were also found ou the sea-coast and on islands 

 situated in Liverpool and Franklin bays of the Polar Ocean. 

 Both Xelson and Turner speak of this bird being a common 

 species in Alaska. Mr. Fannin savs it is a common migrant 

 in British Columbia. The young have also been taken on 

 Vancouver Island. The Ottawa Museum contains one fine 

 specimen, taken on Lake Winnipeg, by Mr. J. B. TyrreU, 

 and one egg also, supposed to belong to this species, from 

 Mackenzie River! 



181. Tetjmpetee Swax — Olor buccinator (Richardson). 



A remark similar to the foregoing is applicable here, 

 while I further quote from the Anderson paper : " Several 

 nests of this species were met with in the Barren Grounds 

 east of the Fort and on islands in Franklin Bay, and one- 

 containing six eggs was situated near the beach on a sloping 

 knoll. It was composed of a quantity of hay, down and 

 feathers intermixed, and this was the general mode of 

 structure of the nests of both swans. It usually lays from 

 four to six eggs, judging from the noted contents of a received 

 total of twenty-four nests." 



This species is said to be rare in Alaska, and uncommon 

 in British Columbia. It occasionally breeds in Alberta, 

 while Mr. Saunderson informed Mr. Raine that " wild swans 

 used to breed on some of the lakes in the present Province 

 of Saskatchewan before the Canadian Pacific Railway was 

 built. The last nest he found was in the spring of 1885, 

 during the last Riel Rebellion. It was at Sounding Lake, 

 Assiniboia, and contained four fresh eggs."' There are no 

 eggs, but one fine skin specimen, of the trumpeter swan in 

 the Dominion Museum at Ottawa I 



204. Whoopixg Ceaxe — Grus americana (Linn.). 



Although we never succeeded in finding a nest of this 

 crane, it undoubtedly breeds in the Fort Anderson section 

 of Arctic America, as well as in the wooded country to 



