CYGNUS MUSICUS. 493 
for which Swans have been at all times so celebrated, and which 
surpasses anything I had imagined in the richness and delicacy 
of the tones; while the voices of the various performers seem 
wonderfully regulated to increase the general effect. These flocks, of 
course, go far north to breed. When the young can fly the Swans 
collect in certain estuaries in the Gulf of Bothnia; and I am assured 
by a gentleman who lives on the outlet of the Pitea river that it is a 
most interesting thing to see each little family come swooping down 
from the country and to hear the congratulations of those already 
assembled at the new arrival. 
[Nearly all the above, written from Muoniovara, 2 February, 1855, to 
Mr. Hewitson, was by him published in the Third Edition of his work 
(pp. 394, 395), As will almost immediately be seen (§§ 5380, 5581), Mr, Wolley 
had not long to wait to be able to write of Wild Swans’ nesting from 
personal experience. The “early Arctic voyage ” to which he refers is Parry’s 
‘Journal of a Second Voyage for the Discovery of a North-West Passage 
(London: 1824), wherein is well figured (p. 240), from a drawing by Captain 
Lyon, a Swan’s nest found, in June 1822, on Winter Island, off the east coast 
of Melville Peninsula; but it doubtless belonged to one of the American 
species, and most likely to Cygnus columbianus, at one time considered to be 
identical with C. bewickz." | 
§ 53875. One.—Iceland? From Mr. Hewitson, 1844. 
[No doubt from Mr. Proctor.] 
§ 5376. One.—Iceland? From Mr. Hancock, 1846. 
§ 53877. One.—Iceland. From Mr. Proctor, 1851. 
Inscribed “Svanir, Anas cygnus” by Mr. Proctor’s Icelandic 
correspondent, 
[A second was sold at Mr. Stevens’s, 31 May, 1860, to Mr. Burney. ] 
* [On a still earlier Arctic voyage, Button’s in 1612-3, the meagre details of which 
are known only from Luke Fox’s work (‘North-West Fox.’ London: 1635), a like 
discovery seems to have been made in Hudson’s Bay, on an island thence called 
“Cary’s Swansnest,” partly, it may be presumed (though this is not stated by the 
narrator), to commemorate some member of the Cary or Carey family, who may 
have had an interest in the adventure, with allusion to the Swan borne by that 
family as its heraldic crest, a fact not noticed by the editor of the Hakluyt Society's 
reprint (i. p. 165, note).—Ep. | 
