. A history of the game birds, wild-fowl and shore birds of Massachusetts and adjacent states : including those used for food which have disappeared since the settlement of the country, and those which are now hunted for food or sport, with observations on their former abundance and recent decrease in numbers; also the means for conserving those still in existence . d; 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 g
. A history of the game birds, wild-fowl and shore birds of Massachusetts and adjacent states : including those used for food which have disappeared since the settlement of the country, and those which are now hunted for food or sport, with observations on their former abundance and recent decrease in numbers; also the means for conserving those still in existence . d; 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 grounfl. 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 Baj% 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. y c v» X ^ i— OS <D C -a c (3 -o 2 0) • ^ Q- 1— CO +- X (U cd UJ 5 h- o LU c CL 2 -a 13 c tr nj 1- hn c 1 Ixl >< § X <u bn CO So ee 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 a
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