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trumpeters nested in the Kankakee marshes of nearby Lake County. 
The Ruthven Deane collection in Chicago contains a specimen of trum- 
peter swan taken in February, 1894, in adjacent Porter County. It 
measured fifty inches, with a spread of wing of eighty-three inches. 
Mr. Barker says he never saw any of these in Newton County. Two 
specimens of whistling swan that are still extant have come to my 
attention. One is in Morocco and was killed about 1886 at Beaver 
Lake by Barker. The other was taken at Morocco and is in the State- 
House Collection at Indianapolis. These are not so large as the trum- 
peter. 
Barker said that in his young manhood he had seen two kinds 
of cranes in the marshes, a white “‘red-headed” and a smaller brown 
erane. The white one was common thirty years ago and could mean 
none other than the whooping crane, very large and with a red face. 
The other was the sandhill crane, by some named “sandyhill,” of the 
same build and about three and a quarter feet tall. The whooping 
crane is today practically exterminated from the state, only a few 
being seen going through the region at migration time, while sandhill 
cranes were nesting in the marshes near the old lake as late as 1932, 
when he saw two adults and their young. Now over forty of these 
Ned Barker, trapper (left) and Dr. Amos W. Butler, Dean of Indiana's ornithol- 
ogists, now deceased. 
cranes may be found at Jasper-Pulaski State Game Preserve in occa- 
sional years. 
Ducks of many kinds were very common and the different species 
were collected by the Barkers, three generations of them, by wing- 
