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MUTE SWAN. 
TAME SWAN. DOMESTIC SWAN. 
Cygnus mansuetus, GouLD. 
a) nes JENYNS., 
Anas olor, PENNANT. BEWICK. 
Cygnus—A Swan. Munsuetus—Accustomed, 
Trova this species is that which we only see preserved as 
an ornament on the lakes, rivers, and ponds of the nobility 
and gentry of the country, and is not now known in a wild 
state, yet as there is no reason why it should have been im- 
ported for the purpose more than any of the others, and from 
the latter, commonly met with as they are, one would more 
naturally look for the supply to be obtained, it seems to me 
that the fact of its being now found as it is, ought to be 
accounted for by the probable supposition that wild birds 
obtained in this country were the original source of the present 
race; on this account, therefore, rather than because its 
establishment in the kingdom has become ‘un fait accompli,’ 
I consider that it has a fair title to the place which it 
holds as a British bird. 
It is found in the wild state in Europe—in Russia and 
the southern parts of Scandinavia generally, Prussia, Lithuania, 
Poland, Hungary, Germany, Holland, France, and Italy; in 
Asia—in Siberia, Persia, and the countries between the Black 
and the Caspian Seas. 
Water is their element, whether that of the sea, the river, 
the lake, or the pond. If frozen out, they are obliged to 
take ‘ton deuteron ploun,’ and keep in the neighbourhood, 
or by any springs, if such there be, that have withstood 
the frost. 
