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ZOOLOGY. 
LIMOSA FEDOA. 
Godwit. 
Very common about San Francisco in tire winter, and is always to be found in tbe market. 
It is also common on tbe Columbia near its mouth, and I received a specimen from Lieutenant 
Trowbridge, U. S. A., killed at Cape Flattery, W. T. 
SCOLOPAX WILSONI. 
Wilson’s Snipe. 
Wilson’s snipe is shot in considerable numbers about San Francisco, and is constantly in the 
market during tbe autumn and winter. We saw them on tbe shores of Klamath lake, and at 
various points along our line of march. 
SCOLOPAX GEISEA. 
Bed-breasted Snipe. 
This species, though less common than the last, is found occasionally in California and 
Oregon. 
CYGNUS BUCCINATOE. 
Trumpeter Swan. 
The trumpeter swan visits California and Oregon with its congeners, the ducks and geese, in 
their annual migrations, but, compared with the myriads of other water birds which congregate 
at that season in the hays and rivers of the west, it is always rare. Before we left the 
Columbia, early in November, the swans had begun to arrive from the north, and frequently 
while at Fort Vancouver their trumpeting call drew our attention to the long converging lines 
of these magnificent birds, so large and so snowy white, as they came from their northern nest¬ 
ing places, and, screaming their delight at the appearance of the broad expanse of water, 
perhaps their winter home, descended into the Columbia. 
CYGNUS AMEEICANUS. 
Common Swan. 
This bird, considerably smaller than the last, is perhaps more common at the west. In Cali¬ 
fornia swans are much less common than on the Columbia, where, during the winter season at 
least, they are exceedingly abundant. 
BEENICLA CANADENSIS. 
The Canada Goose. 
The Canada goose, with several other species, becomes incalculably numerous in the valleys of 
California during the wet season. Some approach to this abundance of wild fowl is annually 
witnessed by the inhabitants of the prairie region of the valley of the Mississippi; but any 
exhibition of the kind which takes place in Illinois or Iowa is far surpassed by that of the 
