WILD, OR WHISTLING SWAN. , 



(Cygnus ferus, Rati, Synops. p. 136. A. 2. Montagu. Diet. Orn. 

 [ed. alt.] p. 543. C. musicus, Bechst. Bonap. Synops. No. 321- 

 ^^7ias Cygnus fertis, Lin. Faun. Suec. No. 107. A7ias Cygnus, 

 Lin. Syst. i. p. 194. Lath. Ind. ii. p. 833. sp. 1. Temm. Man. 

 d'Orn. ii. p. 828. Whistling or Wild Swan, Lath. Penn, Brit. 

 Zool. p. 149. t. Q. Edwards, Glean, tab. 150. Whistling Swan, 

 Penn. Arct. Zool. No. 469. Le Cygne Sauvage, Buff. Ois. ix. p. 

 3. Der Singschwan, Meyer, Tasschenb, ii. p. 498. Naum. Nachtr. 

 tab. 13. fig. 27. Cygno Salvatico, Stor. Degli. Ucc. v. pi. 554. 

 Phil. Museum, No ) 



Sp. Charact. — White, top of the head somewhat yellowish; bill 

 black, without a tubercle ; the bare space round the eye yellow ; 

 tail of 20 feathers. — The young pale ash color, and with the naked 

 space round the eye flesh colored ; feet black. 



The Whistling Swan retires into the Arctic regions to 

 pass in more security the period of reproduction, during the 

 short but brilliant summers which there prevail. In autumn 



