UNITED STATES 
DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR 
NATIONAL PARK SERVICE 
WILD LIFE SURVEY 
213 HILGARD HALL, UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA 
BERKELEY, CALIFORNIA 
October 17, 1932 f 02^ 
COPT 
Dr. Alexander Wetmore 
Assistant Secretary 
Smithsonian Institution 
Washington, D. C. 
Dear Dr. Wetmore: 
Reference is made to "Trumpeter Swan in New Mexico", by 
D. E. Merrill, in The Auk, vol. XLIX, no. 4, October, 1932, p. 460. 
Will you please tell me if this specimen has been sent 
to you for identification? If not, I am hoping that you will 
request that this be done, and X would very much appreciate word from 
you as to your conclusions and anything else you may know about the 
incident. 
In connection with our work on the trumpeter swans of the 
Yellowstone region, it would be most valuable to us to have such 
information. Mr. 0. J. Murie has been helping us in this regard and 
advised me this summer of your identification of the two trumpeter 
swans picked up at Jackson Lake. 
« 
Sincerely yours, 
George M. Y/right 
October 24, 1932. — Mr. T. T. McCabe, of the Museum of 
Vertebrate Zoology, has just informed me of your whereabouts. It 
occurs to me that you may have the opportunity to see the specimen 
referred to during your stay in the Southwest. — G. M. W. 
