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  • Whistling Swan [underlined] Olor columbianus #180 Feby [February] 9th 1924. One of these birds seen at Terra nova flying along foreshore + later feeding on mud flat. Approached under 200 yds [yards] when it flew + joined a flock of Lesser Snow Geese feeding further along the beach. Apparently a young bird but fully grown, about the same colour as the [female symbol] juv [juvenile] given me by Game Dept. [Department] Nov. [November] 13/24 [1924] One of these birds, a large [female symbol] found dead by a friend. measured 7' [feet] 2 1/2 in extent by 4' [feet] 2 1/2 long. Flocks of from 7 to 9 birds quite frequent near Ladner + Sea Island. Mr Hind former chief Game inspector for B.C. [British Columbia] mentioned to me (Nov [November] 12th) that a flock of about 400 swans are outside Sea + Lulu Islands + that two hunters with 10 ga [gauge] guns killed nineteen a few days previously. A flock of nine birds [word crossed out] swan stayed for two or three weeks in a farmers field (Mr [space left blank]) near Ladner. Mr Whalen of the S.W. [southwest] Paint Co. [company] saw them on Nov [November] 1st + also saw a man named Smith shoot one. The authorities apprehended Smith + he was fined, the swan, a young bird I saw in Mr Butters office. Nov [November] 25th 1926. Mr Wm [William] Stormont states that when on steamer opposite Adams River just below Alert Bay he saw a flock of 50 to 60 swan flying southward bucking a strong headwind
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