Swans 



the bottoms for mollusks, worms, and roots, doubtless their 

 necks would have reached no abnormal length. One rarely sees 

 a swan tipping after the manner of the river ducks, and never 

 diving. To escape pursuit the swan, which is really very shy, will 

 quickly distance a strong rower by swimming, yet with an ease 

 and majesty of movement that suggests neither fright nor haste. 



The Trumpeter Swan (Olor buccinator), an even larger 

 species than the preceding, with no yellow on the fore part of its 

 head, though elsewhere identical in plumage with the whistler, 

 has a more western range, being rarely found east of the 

 Mississippi. In habits the two great birds appear to be much the 

 same, but the voice of the well-named trumpeter resounds with 

 a power equalled only by the French horns blown by red-faced 

 Germans at a Wagner opera. 



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