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MUTE SWAN. 



(Cygims olor.) 



CY. rostro rubro, bast tuberculo carnoso nigro, corpore toto albo. 

 Swan with a red beak, its base with a fleshy, black tubercle, the 



body entirely white. 

 Anas Cygnus (mansuetus). Linn. Syst. Nat. 1. 194. Ran, 



Syn. 136. A. Briss. Orn. 6. 288. 



Anas olor. Gmel. Syst. Nat. 1. 501. Lath. Lid. Orn. 2. 834. 

 Le Cygne. Buff. Hist. Nat. Ois. 9. 3. pi. 1. Buffi PI. Enl 



913*. 

 Cygne tubercule, ou domestique. Temm. man. d'Orn. 523. Id. 



2 Edit. ii. 830. 



Le Cygue a bee rouge. Cuv. Reg. Anim. 1. 528. 

 Tame Swan. Alb. Birds, 3. pi. 96. Edw. Glean.pl. 150. Penn. 



Brit. ZooL 2. 265. pi. 60. 

 Mute Swan. Penn. Arct. Zool. 2. 470. Lath. Gen. Syn. 6. 436. 



Lath. Syn. Sup. ii. 342. Bevc. Brit. Birds, 2. 277. 



RATHER less than the former : its beak is red, with 

 the exception of the edges of the mandibles, the hook, 

 the nostrils, the protuberance, and the space round 

 the eyes, which are deep black : the i rides are brown : 

 the entire plumage is of a pure unsullied white : the 

 legs are black, slightly shaded with reddish. The 

 female is smaller, the rostral protuberance is less, and 

 the neck more slender. The young of the year are 

 of an ashy-brown, with the beak and the legs of a 

 lead colour : in the second year the beak becomes 

 yellowish, and the plumage is varied with white and 

 grey ; in the third year the plumage becomes per- 

 fectly white. There is not any remarkable particu- 



