BEWICK'S SWAN. 



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BEWICK'S SWAN. 



PLATE CLXXXVIII. FIGURE I. 



Cygnus Bewickii, 



YARRELL. 



rriHE nest is reported by Captain Lyons, R.N., to 

 be built of peat-moss, and to be nearly as much 

 as six feet long, four feet and three quarters wide, and 

 two feet high on the outside, the hollow one foot and 

 a half across. Another account says that the materials 

 used are flags, rushes, and the small boughs of willow 

 trees; doubtless those most readily procurable are 

 differently made use of in different places. 



The eggs are of a white cream colour. This 

 Swan too is said to occupy six weeks in the incubation 

 of them. Many pairs build in the same vicinity, but 

 each pair maintain the right of private property for 

 the time being in their own more immediate abode. 



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