516 BIRDS—ANATIDZ. 
ORDER LAMELLIROSTRES. ANSERINE BIRDS. 
FAMILY ANATIDA. GEESE, DUCKS, ETC. 
Of moderate size; the neck short, or, when lengthened, not accompanied by co-ordi- 
nately lengthened legs, these being always shorter than the wing. Billstraight. Tibia 
feathered below. Hind toe present, well developed, and functional, though short. 
Sub-family CYGNINE. Swans. 
Skin between eye and bill naked; tarsi reticulate; sexes alike; size very large. Neck 
very long. 
Genus CYGNUS. Linneus. 
Characters of sub-family. 
CYGNUS BUCCINNATOR Richardson. 
‘Trumpeter Swan. 
Cygnus buccinnator, WHEATON, Ohio Agric. Rep. for 1860, 369, 378; Reprint, 1861, 11, 
20; Food of Birds, etc., Ohio Agric. Rep. for 1874, 574; Reprint, 1875, 14.—Couxs, 
Birds of N. W., 1874, 545.—Lanapon, Cat. Birds of Cin., 1877, 16; Revised List, 
Journ. Cin. Soc. Nat. Hist., i, 1879, 185; Reprint, 19. 
Cygnus buecinnater, RICHARDSON, Fn. Bor-Am., ii, 1831, 464. 
Adult plumage entirely white; younger, the head and neck washed with a rusty- 
brown ; still younger, gray or ashy. Bill and feet black. Length, 4-5 feet. Tail - 
(nermaliy) of twenty-four feathers. No yellow spots on bill, which is rather longer 
than the head, the nostrils fairly in its basal half. 
Habitat, chiefly the Mississippi Valley, and northward to the Pasific. Hudson’s 
Bay. Canada. Casually on the Aitlantie coast. Breeds from Iowa and Dakota north- 
ward. In winter south to the Gulf. Said to have occurred in Kngland. 
Rare migrant and winter visitor. The Trumpeter Swan was first 
mentioned as an Ohio bird by myself in 1861, on the authority of Mr. 
Winslow, who informed me that it was occasionally taken at Sandusky 
Bay and other points on the lake shore. Mr. Langdon records one speci- 
men taken and three seen on the Ohio River, near Cincinnati, in Decem- 
ber, 1876, and informs me the captured specimen is preserved by M. 
Wocher, Esq. , 
CyaNus AMERICANUS Sharpless. 
Whistling Swan. 
Cygnus musicus, KIRTLAND, Ohio Geolog. Surv., 1838, 166, 187. 
Cygnus americanus, WHEATON, Ohio Agric. Rep. for 1860, 369; Reprint, 1861, 11; Food of 
Birds, etc., Ohio Agric. Rep. for 1874, 574; Reprint, 1875, 14.—Lanepon, Cat. Birds 
of Cin., 1877, 16; Revised List, Journ. Cin. Soc. Nat, Hist., i, 1879; Reprint, 14. 
Cygnus musicus, BONAPARTE, Syn., 1823, 379. 
Cygnus americanus, SHARPLESS, Doughty’s Cab. N. H, i, 1880, 185. 
