BREEDING OF SWANS 



has, as a matter of fact, a finer and more melodious 

 voice than many of its kindred in Europe. 



The voice of the black swan ought to be more often 

 heard in the land. It has been acclimatized here for 



BLACK SWAN. 



years. In the very first list of animals recorded by the 

 Zoological Society as having been acquired, issued in the 

 year 1831, this bird figures. Since that date it has 

 always been in stock, and has bred in most years. Sir 

 Robert Heron pointed out to the Zoological Society in 

 1833 that individuals kept by him sometimes even bred 

 twice a year, and that, if only once, January was their 

 favourite month, which corresponds of course to mid- 

 summer in Australia. At present the months of breed- 

 ing at the Zoo are various. The bird is, moreover, not so 



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