. The oist . storic villageof Chippewa, hoping to find a rem-nant of this swan brigade, but therewas not one to be seen on the riverbelow Xavy Island . A flock, various-ly estimated to number 20 to 60 indi-viduals had been seen by a number of people the day before. I was un-able to learn that any swans had beenshot above the Falls, although theyhad been seen there almost every dayfor a week. Rev. .J. Hibbert Langille in his book,Our Birds in Their Haunts, tells offinding a dead swan on the shore ofLake Ontario at the mouth of John-sons Creek, which he says, by somemeans unknown, had perished i
. The oist . storic villageof Chippewa, hoping to find a rem-nant of this swan brigade, but therewas not one to be seen on the riverbelow Xavy Island . A flock, various-ly estimated to number 20 to 60 indi-viduals had been seen by a number of people the day before. I was un-able to learn that any swans had beenshot above the Falls, although theyhad been seen there almost every dayfor a week. Rev. .J. Hibbert Langille in his book,Our Birds in Their Haunts, tells offinding a dead swan on the shore ofLake Ontario at the mouth of John-sons Creek, which he says, by somemeans unknown, had perished in thecourse of its long migration. I havelittle doubt that it met death in thecataract of Niagara. Mr. L. J. Davison says in his Biidsof Niagara County, N. Y., nearly ev-ery season a number of this species(Whistling Swan) are taken in awounded condition in Niagara River,below the falls. They are probablywounded in flying into the falls dur-ing storms while migrating duringthe night. I have also been told that. Canadian Rapids from Ice Fender of the Ontario Power Company. 104 THE OOLOGIST. dead specimens have been found onthe shore of Lake Ontario near Niag-ara River, after the ice had been bro-ken up in the spring. While it maybe true that birds sometimes fly intothe falls from the gorge below^, Iknow that the swans in the presentinstance went over the precipice fromthe upper river. They were seenabove the rapids before eleven oclockin the morning of March loth. After a long tiresome flight fromChesapeake Bay, the open water of Ni-agara River would be a welcomesight to this ill-fated flock of WildSwans. Resting from their labors,they probably dropped down streamunsuspecting danger until to late tosave themselves fi(.m plunging intothe turbulent watcs of the CanadianRapids. These rapids begin abruptly witha drop of about ten feet in a line run-ning across the river from the headof Goat Island to the gate house ofthe Ontario Power Company on theCanadian shore. I have watched gull
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