"and as the huge birds rose from the lake into the air, it seemed as if an aerial regatta were being sailed overhead; the swans, each with a wing-spread of six or seven feet, moving like yachts under full sail in a mirage where water blended with sky and tricked one's vision.

-The Trumpeter Swan is an even larger species than the preceding... but the voice of the well named trumpeter resounds with a power equalled (sic) only by the French horns blown by red-faced Germans at a Wagner opera. "

Birds that Hunt and Are Hunted by Neltje Blanchan published in 1904