TRUMPETER SWAN. 
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leucopsis, ) and the bean goose, ( Anas segetum ,) the 
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 in the 
interior and on the sea coast, sometimes in small flocks, 
but 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 by our navigators. Two of these three, the 
eider and king ducks, confine their visits to the sea 
coast ; but the third, the long-tailed duck, (Anas 
glacialis ,) is seen also abundantly in the interior, on 
its passage north.” 
CYGNUS, SWAN. 
43. CYGNUS BUCCINATOR, RICHARDSON. — TRUMPETER SWAN. 
Sub Family, Anserinse, Swains. — Genus, Cygnus, AucU — - 
Keetcliee wapeesliew, Cree Indians — Ch. Sp. Anas ( Cygnus) 
Buccinator, albus ; rostro toto nigro etuberculato, rectricibus 24* 
— Sp. Ch. Trumpeter Swan, white; head glossed above with 
chestnut ; bill, entirely black, without a tubercle ; tail feathers, 
24. 
t( This is the most common swan in the interior of the 
fur 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 few 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 Bewickii ; in 
other respects, it is distributed through the sternum, 
nearly as in the latter of these species. It is to the 
trumpeter the bulk of the swan skins imported by the 
Hudson’s Bay Company belong.” — Richardson . 
