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above, turning the edges of the rolls of clouds to buff. A passing Marsh Hawk 
tilted up catching the light so that his breast glowed a warm rufous. Coots 
erated, Mallards quacked, and Eared Grebes gave their soft hoy-wp, hoy-wp. 
The buffy clouds turned to a soft veiled salmon. Squad after squad of 
Crows flew over the lake till several hundred had gone to the roost. High in 
the sky a small band of Gulls straggled over. Then the bright sunset colors 
faded in the east to the dull soft pinks and blues presaging night. Our Peli- 
cans would return no more; they had passed on to seek other waters. 
(To be continued) 
FROM FIELD AND STUDY 
Trumpeter Swan Breeding in Yellowstone Park.—During the past summer I found 
a nest of the Trumpeter Swan (Olor buccinator) on a low island in a lagoon northeast 
of Lewis Lake, Yellowstone National Park, containing five whitish eggs. Other signs of 
the swans were seen at various times during the summer. On September 6, 1919, I again 
visited this section and found five Trumpeter Swans (the two parents and three nearly 
grown young that were then large enough to fly well) in the lagoon and later flying and 
uttering their far-reaching calls. 
In previous years I have seen Trumpeter Swans here and acting in such a way 
that I believed they were breeding, but I believe that this is the first authentic record 
for the Park. 
Mr. H. M. Smith, Fish Commissioner, reports that on July 16, 1919, he visited a 
small, unnamed lake lying south of Delusion Lake, Yellowstone National Park, and found 
therein a pair of swans with six young about the size of teal and swimming actively. 
This was probably another family, as the two localities are eight miles apart in a direct 
line.—M. P. SKINNER, Yellowstone Park, Wyoming, January 28, 1920. 
Bohemian Waxwing in Southeastern California~—On December 21, 1919, Mrs. 
Swarth and 1 were travelling between the Grand Canyon and Pasadena. At the little 
desert station of Danby, California, some fifty miles west of Needles, on the Santa Fe 
railroad, two Bohemian Waxwings (Bombycilla garrula) were seen. Although this is a 
sight identification, and from a train, I have no hesitancy in placing it on record, with 
certainty that the birds seen were Bohemian Waxwings and not the smaller Cedar Bird. 
The train stopped a few minutes at that point, and the birds were seen at quite close 
range from the observation platform. They were first noted flying past, and they lit in 
a cottonwood some twenty or thirty yards from the track. They were in plain sight, and 
their call notes were heard also. As I had but recently seen the species under most favor- 
able conditions for observation (see p. 80), the bird’s appearance in life was sufficiently 
fresh in my memory to enable me to feel certain regarding the minor differences distin- 
guishing the Bohemian Waxwing from the Cedar Bird.—H. S. Swartu, Museum of Verte- 
brate Zoology, Berkeley, California, February 7, 1920. 
Golden Eagle at Porterville, California-—On January 7, 1920, a Golden Hagle 
(Aquila chrysaetos) flew down between two houses in the thickly settled part of Porter- 
ville, in an apparently exhausted condition. Two men happened along, and,. taking hold 
of each wing, led it away for four blocks. Jt was placed in a large shed and then given 
to the writer. After several days it began to eat, and it now seems to be out of the stupor 
it was in at first. The only explanation I could make to account for its condition was 
that it might have been eating poisoned squirrels. It might, perhaps, have come in con- 
tact with an electric line, but the former explanation seems more apt to be correct.—uL. pe 
Hupson, Porterville, California, January 16, 1920. 
Southerly Nesting Records of the Arctic Tern in Southeastern Alaska.—During the 
summer of 1915 numerous Arctic Terns (Sterna paradisaea Briinnich) were observed 
