. The Canadian bird book [microform] : illustrating in natural colors more than seven hundred North American birds : also several hundred photographs of their nest and eggs. Oiseaux; Birds. WliiHtllni! Swan [179] WiioopEH Swan. Olor cygnut. ThiH European variety frequently is found in Ureenland and formerly, regularly bred there. It nestH In secluded Bwampy olaceB In northern EfUrope. 180. VViiwTLiNo Swan. Olorcolumhiauu*. H "^^"" '^°1["' '^"'^'•Ica. breeding In the Arc- tit ( ircle, and wintering south to the Oulf of Mexico. These birds, which are nearly five feet
. The Canadian bird book [microform] : illustrating in natural colors more than seven hundred North American birds : also several hundred photographs of their nest and eggs. Oiseaux; Birds. WliiHtllni! Swan [179] WiioopEH Swan. Olor cygnut. ThiH European variety frequently is found in Ureenland and formerly, regularly bred there. It nestH In secluded Bwampy olaceB In northern EfUrope. 180. VViiwTLiNo Swan. Olorcolumhiauu*. H "^^"" '^°1["' '^"'^'•Ica. breeding In the Arc- tit ( ircle, and wintering south to the Oulf of Mexico. These birds, which are nearly five feet In ength, are snow white with the ex-eptlon of the black bill and feet. The Whistling Swan Is distinguished from the next species by the ;^?.."' * **?>"" y«"°*' "Po' °n either side 3f the bill near Its base. Their nests are made of a large mass of rubbish, weeds, grass, mess, feathers and occasionally a few sticks. It Is generally placed In a somewhat marshy place to the neighborhood of some Isolated pond. The eggs are of a greenish or brownish buff *^°. ,c' "I** numbe' from three to six. Slie X River. Nest a mass of weeds, sods and grass, lined with feathers- on an island near the mouth of the river. Col- lector, I. O. Stringer. f| 181. Thitmpeter Swan. Oloi buccinator. Range.—Interior of North America from the Gulf of Mexico northwarrt hro^-i Ing from northern United States northward. northward, breed- Thls is a magnificent bird, about five and one-h«lf foot in i„„^i. i. age Is exactly like that of the preceding except thai the bin t ?nH J.'\'','"'2" and the nostral Is located nearer the eye Their nLtlnT hi k» ^""j^'y ••'ack. the same as those ot the WhlstHng Swan Whife a few nal^s ma^ "htin''^ he united States by far the grefter number are found'^fnth" extreme ^ort'l!" !i7heree°':'""'- ^"^ ^'^^^ ^^ -«-«« " ^nf^Xr^r'^L'
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