TRUMPETER SWAN. 
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leucopsis,) and the bean goose, (Anas segetum,)ihe 
remaining two species of geese known to visit those 
countries, are rarely seen, being accidental visitors. 
“ The swans arrive in the fur countries still earlier 
than the Canada goose, and frequent the eddies under 
Waterfalls, and other spots of open water, until the 
rivers and lakes break up. They are seen both m the 
interior and on the sea coast, sometimes in small flocks, 
Wt more frequently in pairs. , 
“ Of the smaller birds, or ducks, that constitute the 
genus anas, there are about twenty-four species known 
in the Hudson’s Bay fur countries, only three of which 
were seen hv our navigators. Two ot these three, tlio 
eider and king ducks, confine their visits to the sea 
coast- but the third, the long-tailed duck, (Anas 
'Jlacialis,) is seen also abundantly in the interior, on 
its passage north.” 
CYGNVS, SWAN. 
43. CTONUS BUCCINATOR, HICHAADSOST. -TEUMFKTEIL SWAN. 
Sun Uavilt. Anscriu®, Swains Genus, Cygnus, Auct. — 
Reetchee wapeeshew, Crce Indians — Cm. Sr. Anas ( ty^nns) 
Buccinator, ilbus; rostro toto uigro etuberailato, rijtricibus 24. 
— Sr Ch. Trumpeter Swan, white; head glossed above with 
chestnut ; biU, entirely black, without a tubercle ; tail leathers, 
24. 
« This is the most common swan in the mtenwe of the 
t'ttr countries. It breeds as far south as lat. 61 , but 
principally within the Arctic circle ; and, in its migra- 
tions, generally precedes the geese a lew days A fold 
Of its windpipe enters a protuberance on the dorsal 
aspect of the sternum, at its upper part, which is 
wanting both in the Cygnus ferns and Bewic ^ 1 ’^ 
other respects, it is distributed through the sternum 
nearly as in the latter of these species. It » to the 
trumpeter the hulk of the swan skins imported 1,y the 
Hudson’s Bay Company belong. —Richardson. 
