WHISTLING DICK. 
Biological Survey found the whistling -wan breeding at Becharoi 
Lake in southern Alaska, latitude 58 . this being the mosl southern 
breeding record. Thence it breeds along the Yukon, about Kotzebue 
Sound. and probably to Point Barrow. Though found on the Asiatic 
Bide at Bering Island, as yet there is no record oi its breeding in 
that country. Accidental once in Scotland and once in the Bermudas. 
Winter range. — Probably about as common on Chesapeake Bay 
during the winter as in any part of its winter home: many pa— to the 
coast of North Carolina and a few to Florida. It winter- regularly 
north to New Jersey, and during the winter of 1^77 78; one remained 
on Nantucket Island. Massachusetts, in which State the species was 
common when the lir>t settlers arrived, but is now so rare that it seems 
to have been recorded only four times in the last thirty years. It 
never was common in the interior of North America, hut a few occur 
locallv in winter from southern Indiana and Illinois to the Gulf 
coast of Louisiana and Texas. It is more common along the Pacific 4 
coast, and winters regularly from southern British Columbia to south- 
ern Calif ornia (Ventura County), and probably one was seen at San 
Rafael, Lower California. The species is recorded as wintering on 
Near Island. Alaska, far north of the usual winter home. One was 
seen January is, 1904, near Colonia Diaz. Chihuahua, and some years 
earlier one was killed in the winter at Silao, Guanajuato. 
Syring migration. — The northward movement begins in March, as 
shown by the following dates of arrival: Erie, Pa.. March 11, 1897 5 
AYilliamsport, Pa.. March -Jo. 1:m)5; Deerfield. N. Y.. March 13, 1890; 
Lockport. X. V.. March 20, 1886; Detroit, Mich.. March 1-1, 1905; 
Delavan. Wis., April 1, L895, March 31. 1896; Heron Lake, Minn., 
April 0, ISM). March 31. ls<»4: Elk River. Minn.. April 8, L886; Fort 
Collins, Golo., March L6, L895; Jordan River. Utah, March 10, 1850; 
St. Michael, Alaska, April 27. L878; Kowak River. Alaska, May 11. 
L899; Fort Simpson, Mackenzie, May 5, 1904; Fort Anderson, 
Mackenzie, May IS, 1865, and Melville Island. May 31. L820. One 
seen near St. John, New Brunswick. April 8, 1882, seems to he the 
only spring record on the Atlantic coast north of Long Island for the 
last fifty years. 
Sin ipecies breeds to the westward of Hudson Bay and win- 
ters commonly on Chesapeake Bay and yet is practically unknown in 
spring in northeastern North America, it follows that its route in 
spring migration trends to the northwestward, and it is evident why 
at this season the species is not uncommon in the region of the Great 
Lakes and Manitoba. 
Most whistling swans Leave t he United State- from the middle to the 
latter part of April; unusually late birds were seen Dear Baltimore 
May -4, 1905, at Williamsport, Pa.. May 30, L901, while nonbreeders 
have spent the summer on Lake Malheur. Oregon. 
