CYGNUS. 671 



throat is bright rose colour, each of the feathers of the breast is broadly 

 centred towards the tip with bright cerise; feathers of the upper portion of 

 the back similarly centred, and over the broad rosy white scapulars a number 

 of comparatively narrow, elongated, intensely cherry-coloured plumes have 

 been thrown out ; the whole visible portion of the secondary, lesser and median 

 coverts have become the most brilliant cherry colour with only narrow white 

 tips ; lower tail coverts, flanks and vent feathers are bright rosy tinged with 

 cherry colour, with only narrow white tips ; the legs and feet too have 

 become a deep but brilliant red ; the basal portion of bill deep vinous red, 

 the tip black, the intermediate portion bright crimson lake." 



Length. 33 to 35 inches; wing 12-5 to 1375; bill from gape 3.5 to 3-6; 

 tail 4-5 to 475 ; tarsus 7-5 to 8'$. (Hume, Str. F. i. 33-34-) 



Hab. Sind, Persia, Punjab, N.-W. Provinces, Rajputana, Guzerat and 

 the Deccan. 



Gray, in his Handlist of Birds in the Br. Mus., gives West Africa, Cape of 

 Good Hope and the Coast of the Red Sea as its other habitats. Occurs 

 associated with P. an liquor um. 



Family, CYGNID^.-^. 



Neck very long; legs moderate; front toes broadly webbed ; hind toe not 

 lobed ; keel long ; bill high at the base, with a fleshy or callous tubercle; cere 

 extending to the eye ; 2nd and 3rd quills of wing longest; tail short, rounded. 



Cygnus olor. The Mute Swan. 



1373. Cygnus Olor (Gm.) t Bodd., Tab. P. E. 913; Naum. Vogt. 

 t. 29 ; Gould, B. Eur. pi. 354 ; Str. F. vii. pp. 99, lor, 106 ; Murray, Hdbk., 

 Zool., 4*c., Stnd, p. 231 ; id., Vert., Zool. Sind, p. 282. The MUTE SWAN. 



