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MUTE SWAN. 



TAME SWAN. DOMESTIC SWAN. 



Cygnus mansuetus, 



" o/or, 

 Anas olor, 



Gould. 

 Jknyns. 

 Pennant. Bewick 



inus — A Swan. 



Mansuetus— Accustomed. 



Though 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 Eussia 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. 



