HOOPER. 
WILD SWAN. ELK. WHISTLING SWAN. 
Cygnus ferus, FLEMING. SELBY. 
Anas cygnus, PENNANT, 
fers, MontacGu. 
Cygnus—A Swan. Ferus—Wild, savage. | 
THE Hooper visits Prussia, Turkey, Greece, Hungary, Poland, 
France, Holland, and Italy; occasionally seen also in different 
parts of Germany, particularly, 1¢ is said, in Westphalia, 
Saxony, Dessau, and Worlitz, from Iceland, Norway, Lapland, 
Sweden, Denmark, Spitzbergen, and Russia in Europe; in Asia, 
it occurs in Siberia, Kamtschatka, and Tartary, the regions that 
border on the Black Sea and the Caspian Sea, Japan, Syria, 
Persia, and China. It is also said to be found in America, 
from Hudson’s Bay through the United States to Mexico. 
It appears likewise that it travels as far as Africa, to Egypt 
and Barbary. 
In the Orkneys, some used, according to the Rev. G. Low, 
in his Natural History of those Islands, to abide throughout 
the year; and a few pairs build on the Loch of Stenness, but 
in autumn large flocks arrive from the north, and of these 
part remain all the winter, and others cross over to Scotland— 
Sutherlandshire, Caithnesshire, Forfarshire, and the other 
northern counties, and thence penetrate according as the season 
impels them even to the southern shores of Sussex and 
Hampshire. 
In the Hebrides, Shetland, and Faroe Islands, these birds 
also have occurred. 
In Yorkshire they have been shot near Doncaster, Sheffield, 
Barnsley, Leeds, and Sutton-on-Derwent; they are far from 
uncommon in hard winters. 
A flock of five appeared in January, 1855, between the 
