BEWICK’S SWAN. 
Cygnus Bewickii, YARRELL. SevBy. ; 
- “4 JeNYNS, Eyton. Gou.p. 
Cygnus—A Sivan. Bewichii—Of Bewick. 
THE Swan thus denominated in honour of Bewick, our 
own Bewick, whose name must ever be associated with 
‘British Birds,’ appears to be distributed over the northern 
parts of Europe, Asia, and America, and the islands of the 
Arctic Ocean. Temminck says that it breeds in Iceland and 
Siberia. 
In Yorkshire, Edward Dawson, Esq., son of my friend, 
G. P. Dawson, Esq., of Osgodby Hall, near Selby, has informed 
me of his having shot three of these birds at a shot on 
Skipwith Common, about the 14th. of February, 1855. There 
was a flock of five, the other two were the old birds. One 
was shot near Bawtry; several have occurred at different 
times near Burlington. 
In Cambridgeshire, so J. R. Little, Esq., of St. John’s 
College, has written me word, a flock of twenty was seen on 
Whittlesea Wash, about the middle of March, 1855, of which 
three were shot. A few near Wisbeach, on the estuary of 
the Nene, in the middle of December, 1849. In the county 
of Durham, one was shot near Stockton-on-Tees, in the 
winter of 1850. Six are said to have been seen in January, 
1830, near St. Just, in Cornwall. In March, 1845, three 
were shot near Somersham, and three near Godmanchester, 
in the county of Huntingdon. In Norfolk they are not 
unfrequent in the neighbourhood of the sea, in winter. In 
Oxfordshire two near Oxford, in the winter of 1837-8. In 
Derbyshire a flock of eleven appeared on the Trent, near 
Melbourne, in February, 1845, and two of them were shot. 
In Lancashire a flock of twenty-nine, one of which was shot 
