Trumpeter swan Edward Preble wrote of the decline in the hunt with the number sold annually dropping from 1,312 in 1854 to 122 in 1877. Sir John Richardson wrote in 1831 that the trumpeter "is the most common Swan in the interior of the fur-counties... It is to the trumpeter that the bulk of the Swan-skins imported by the Hudson's Bay Company belong." By the early twentieth century breeding trumpeter swans were nearly extirpated in the United States except for a remnant population of fewer than 70 wild trumpeters in remote hot springs in or near Yellowstone National Park. Surprising news came
Silver-throated bushtit "Mecistura glaucogularis". He specified the type locality as Shanghai. As Gould's work appeared in print in 1855 before the publication of the proceedings of the Zoological Society, under the rules of the International Code of Zoological Nomenclature Gould's publication has priority. The name "glaucogularis" combines the Latin "glaucus" "glaucous" and the New Latin "gularis" "throated". The silver-throated bushtit was formerly considered a subspecies of the long-tailed tit ("Aegithalos caudatus") but the plumage is distinctive and there are significant genetic differences. Two subspecies are recognised: Silver-throated bushtit The silver-throated bushtit or silver-throated tit ("Aegithalos glaucogularis") is a species of bird in