564 T A M E S W A N. Class II, 



165. Tame Le Cygne. Be/on av, 151. Le Cygne. Brijfonav. VI. 288. 



Swan. Ge/nerav. 371. Anas Cygnus manfuetus. Lift. 



Cygno, Ciiano. Aldr, a-v. Jyfl. 194. 



III. 1. Swan. Faun. Suec. fp. IQJ. 



7/7/. or*. 355. Schwan. Frifch, II. 152. 



Raiijyn.a'v. 136. £>rt«/'.r Tarn Svane. Brunnicb, 



Edtv. a'v. 1 $0. 4.1.. 



Plott's hijt. Staff. 22S. Br.'Zool. 149. add. plates. 



Descrip. rip HIS is the largeft of the i?n7//7j birds. It 

 X is diftinguiihed externally from the wild fwan ; 

 firfi:, by its fize, being much larger : fecondly, by 

 the bill, which in this is red, and the tip and fides 

 black, and the fkin between the eyes and bill is of 

 the fame color. Over the bale of the upper man- 

 dible projects a black callous knob : the whole 

 plumage in old birds is white ± in young ones 

 afh colored till the fecoi.d year : the legs duiky : 

 but Dr. Plott mentions a variety found on the Trent 

 near Hugely, with red legs. The fwan lays (evtn 

 or eight eggs, and is h • r two months in hatch- 

 ing : it feeds on water p ts, infects and fhells. 

 No bird perhaps makes fo nulegant a figure out 

 of the water, or has the command of fuch beautiful 

 attitudes in that element as the fwan : aimoft every 

 poet has taken notice of it, but none with that 

 juftice of defcription, and in fo picturefque a 

 manner, as our Mil! en. 



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