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HOOPER. 



WILD SWAN. ELK. WHISTLING SWAN. 



Cygnus ferns, Fleming. Selby. 



Anas cygnus, Pennant. 



" fems, Montagu. 



Cygnus— A Swan. Fems— Wild, savage. 



The Hooper visits Prussia, Turkey, Greece, Hungary, Poland, 

 France, Holland, and Italy; occasionally seen also in different 

 parts of Germany, particularly, it 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, 

 Barn si ey, Leeds, and Sutton-on-Derwent; they are far from 

 uncommon in hard winters. 



A flock of five appeared in January, 1855, between the 





