MUTE SWAN. 



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THE MUTE SWAN. 



Anas olm; Tame Swan, Penn. Brit. Zool. vol. ii. p. 221. 



,, „ Mute Swan, Bewick, Brit. Birds, vol. ii. p. 286. 



Cygnus ,, ,, ,, Jenyns, Bjit. Vert. p. 228. 



,, mansuetus. Domestic ,, Gould, Birds of Europe, pt. vii. 



Anas olor, Cygne tuhercule Temm. Man. d'Ornith. t. ii. p. 830. 

 Cygnus ,, ,, ,, ,, ,, ,, pt. iv. p. 529. 



OuK Mute Swan is one of the most graceful as well as the 

 largest of British Birds, and at the same time so well known 

 and appreciated, that minute details of its characters, or its 

 value, are unnecessary, beyond pointing out those external 

 differences by which it may be readily distinguished from 

 either of the species already described. 



The most obvious difference, and that which will imme- 

 diately strike the observer on comparing the representation of 

 our Mute, half-domesticated Swan, with those of the Hooper 



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