659 



CYGNUS MUSICUS. THE WHOOPING SWAN. 



HOOPER. WILD SWAN. WHISTLING SWAN. ELK. 



Fio. 59. 



Anas Cygnus ferus. Linn. Syst. Nat. I. 194. 



Anas Cygnus. Lath. Ind. Ornith. II. 833. 



Whistling or Wild Swan. Mont. Ornith. Diet, and Supplt. 



Cygne a bee jaune ou sauvage. Anas Cygnus. Temm. Man. d'Orn. II. 828 



Whistling Swan. Cygnus ferus. Selhy, Illustr. II. 278. 



Cygnus ferus. Whistling Swan. Jenyns, Brit. Vert. Anim. 227. 



Cygnus musicus. Bonap. Comp. List, 55. 



Adult male about sixty inches long, ninety -Jive in extent of 

 wings; bill from the joint to the tip of the upper mandible 

 three inches and a half, its greatest width about the middle an 

 inch and a quarter; from the eye to the tip of the bill five 



