. . ad; irisbrown; bill, lores and feet black. Immature in Winter. — Gray; rusty on head and neck; bill dusky, or blackvaried with purplish and flesh color; legs and feet yellowish brown;claws blackish; webs blackish brown. Nest. — Of grass, leaves, down and feathers, on dry ground. Eggs. — Five to seven, 4 to by to 3; chalky white, granulated. Notes. — A resonant trumpeting. Season. — Formerly spring and fall. Range. — Formerly the North American continent, rare in Alaska, breed-ing from the northern United States to near
. . ad; irisbrown; bill, lores and feet black. Immature in Winter. — Gray; rusty on head and neck; bill dusky, or blackvaried with purplish and flesh color; legs and feet yellowish brown;claws blackish; webs blackish brown. Nest. — Of grass, leaves, down and feathers, on dry ground. Eggs. — Five to seven, 4 to by to 3; chalky white, granulated. Notes. — A resonant trumpeting. Season. — Formerly spring and fall. Range. — Formerly the North American continent, rare in Alaska, breed-ing from the northern United States to near the Arctic Ocean, and fromthe Rocky Mountains to Hudson Bay, and wintering mainly in thesouthern States and south to lower California. Now found only in theinterior; still breeds in interior British Provinces. splendid bird, the largest of North American wild-fowl, is believed to have visited Massachusetts and other sea-board States in some numbers during their early of the settlers wrote of Swans that were met with on the. CC J5 X § SPECIES EXTINCT OR EXTIRPATED. 473 Atlantic seaboard, but few of them distinguished between thespecies. Lawson (1709) writing of the natural history of Carolina,states that there were two sorts of Swans. One they called trompeters, because of a sort of trompeting noise theymake. These were the larger, and came in great flocks inthe winter, keeping mostly in the fresh rivers. The othersthey called hoopers (in remembrance of the EnglishWhooping Swan), and these were smaller and kept more insalt water. ^ TurnbuU (1869) includes the Trumpeter among the birdsof east Pennsylvania and New Jersey, on the authority ofreliable sportsmen who have shot it on Chesapeake and Dela-ware Bays. Thus it seems that the Trumpeter, now con-sidered a bird of the interior, was taken on the Atlantic coastas late as the latter half of the last century. In the Representation of the New Netherland (1650), apaper signed by twelve prominen
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