Dr. Heineken’s Entomological Notices. 191 
in my surmise, he will, in all probability, regard this communication, 
which, by the addition of novel and important evidence, tends more com- 
pletely to establish his views, as forming an interesting supplement to his 
paper. 
ADDITIONAL OBSERVATIONS ON Mr. YARRELL’S NEWLY-DESCRIBED 
SPECIES OF SWAN. 
On the 28th of February, at half-past ten A. M., seventy-three Swans, 
of the species recently described by W. Yarrell, Esq., as distinct from the 
Hooper, and named by that distinguished naturalist Cygnus Bewichii, were 
observed flying over Crumpsall in a south-easterly direction, at a con- 
siderable elevation. They flew abreast, forming an extensive line, like 
those seen on the 10th of December, 1829; like them too they were 
mistaken for wild geese by most persons who saw them with whom I had 
an opportunity of conversing on the subject, but their superior size, the 
whiteness of their plumage, their black feet, easily distinguished as they 
passed overhead, and their reiterated calls, which first directed my atten- 
tion to them, were so strikingly characteristic, that skilful ornithologists 
could not be deceived with regard to the genus to which they belonged. 
That these birds were not Hoopers may be safely inferred from their 
great inferiority in point of size. Now the circumstance of the small 
Swans associating together in large numbers, unaccompanied by Hoopers, 
the only known species with which they could be confounded by 
naturalists, and the difference, pointed out by Mr. Yarrell, in their inter- 
nal structure, are facts which completely establish their specific dis- 
tinctness. 
“Aer. XXX. Entomological Notices. By the late C. 
Heineken, M.D., &c. 
In the Ist vol. of the 2nd edition of the “ Introduction to Entomology,” 
p- 361, it is stated that the female Lycosa “ feeds her young until their 
first moult,’”’ and as it struck me that the difficulties of supplying with 
