370 WEB-FOOTED BIRDS. 



These doleful strains were heard at the dawn of day, or 

 when the winds and waves were still ; and like the syrinx of 

 Pan, were in all probability nothing more than the murmurs 

 and sighs of the wind through the marshes and forests 

 graced and frequented by these elegant aquatic birds. The 

 Mute Swan never visits the Padus, styled Oloriferus, from 

 the numbers of the present species which frequent its 

 waters. It is also almost equally certain that none but the 

 present is ever seen on the Cayster, in Lydia, each of them 

 streams celebrated by the poets, as the resort of Swans. 



Haud secus Eridani stagnis ripave Caystri 

 Innatat albus Olor, pronoque immobile corpus 

 Dat fluvio : et pedibus tacitis emigrat in undas. 



SiLius Italicus. Lib. 14. 



The Hooper is about 5 feet in length : the alar extent 7 feet 3 

 inches. Length of the bill above, 4 inches 4^ lines ; the tarsus 4 

 inches ; the middle toe and nail 6^ inches. Wholly white except 

 the head and nape, which are very slightly tinted with yellowish. 

 Bill black, covered at its base with a yellow cere, which surrounds 

 also the region of the eyes. Iris brown. Feet black. 



In the young, the whole plumage is of a pale grey ; the fore part 

 of the bill dull black, with the cere and naked space round the eyes 

 livid flesh color. The feet reddish-grey. In the second moult it ap- 

 pears already in whitish plumage. 



TRUMPETER SWAN. 



( Cygnus buccinator, Richardson, North. Zool. ii. p. 464. Keetchee 

 z^5«j9ee5/<e?o, Cree Indians. The Trumpeter, Lawson. Hist. Carol, 

 p. 14C.) 



Si*. Charact. — White; head glossed above with chestnut; bill 

 entirely black, without a tubercle; tail of 24 feathers; the feet 

 black. 



According to Richardson this is the most common Swan 

 in the interior of the fur countries, which it frequents to 



