BEWICK'S SWAN. 



ANSEMES. 



315 



AiYATID^. 



Cygnus bewtcki, Yarrell.* 



BEWICK'S SWAN. 



Cygnus Bewickii. 



In the ^\'inter of 1823-24, the Author prepared and pre- 

 served the trachea and part of the bones of a young Wild 

 Swan, shot in this country, which possessed peculiarities 

 he had never observed in the Whooper at any age, inducing 

 the belief that they belonged to a distinct species. At the 

 sale of part of the valuable collection of the late Joshua 

 Brookes, in July 1828, the Author purchased the sternum 

 and trachea of a Swan presented to and prepared bj' Leach, 

 which belonged to an adult bird of the same species as the 

 bones of the young one just mentioned. These materials 

 the Author exhibited at the Zoological Club of the Linnean 

 Society, on the 24th of November, 1829, contrasting them 



* Tr. Linn. Soc. xvi. p. 453 (in a paper read 19th January, 1830). 



