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CYGNUS BEWICKIL BEWICK'S SWAN. 



New species of Swan. "Wingate. Trans. Nat. Hist. Soc. North. Durh. and 



Newcastle 1.1. 

 Cygnus Bewickii. Yarrel, Trans. Linn. Soc. XVI. 446. 

 Cygnus Bewickii. Selby, Trans. Nat. Hist. North. Soc. Durh. and Newc. 



I. 17. 

 Cygnus Bewickii. "Wingate, Bewick's Swan. Jard. and Selb. Illustr. of 



Ornith. II. pi. xcv. 

 Cygne de Bewick. Cygnus Bewickii. Tenim. Man. d'Orn. IV. 527. 

 Bewick's Swan. Cygnus Bewickii. Selby, Illustr. II. 284. 

 Cygnus Bewickii. Bewick's Swan. Jenyns, Brit. Vert. Anim. 228. 

 Cygnus Bewickii. Bonap. Comp. List, 55. 



Male about forty-Jive inches long ; seventy-two in extent of 

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

 three inches, its greatest breadth toward the end an inch and 

 a twelfth ; from the eye to the tip of the bill four inches and 

 five-twelfths ; tarsus three inches and nine-twelfths ; middle 

 toe four inches and a half, its claw ten-twelfths ; tail of 

 twenty {often eighteen) feathers, much rounded ; bare space on 

 the forehead, and between the eyes and bill, bright yellow, as 

 is the base of the upper mandible, that colour extending in an 

 angular form, but not reaching the nostrils ; feet black ; 

 plumage pure white, the head and neck tinged with orange-red. 

 Female similar to the male, but considerably smaller. Young 

 with the bill dusky at the end, flesh-coloured toward the base, 

 the partially bare skin at its base flesh-colour ; the feet reddish- 

 grey ; the plumage pale bluish-grey , the upper part of the 

 head darker. 



Male in Winter. — This species, which is about a third 

 less than the Whooping Swan, differs little from it in its 

 general appearance, but presents peculiarities by which it may 

 easily be distinguished. The body is of an ovato-elliptical 

 form, rather depressed, especially at its fore part ; the neck 



