18 BLACK SWAN T . 



in having its beak red, the plumage of the head and 

 neck of a velvet black, and its legs flesh-coloured. 



It inhabits various parts of South America, but is 

 most numerous among the Falkland Islands and the 

 Straits of Magellan. 



BLACK SWAN. 



(Cygnus atratus.) 



CY. rostro rubescente, corpore atro, margine alarum albo. 



Swan with a reddish beak, dark-coloured body, with the margin 



of the wing white. 



Anas atrata. Lath. Ind. Orn. 2. 834. 

 Le Cigne noir. Cuv. Reg. Anim. 1. 529- 

 Anas plutonia. Shaw, Nat. Misc. pi. 108. 

 Black Swan. Lath. Gen. Syn. Sup. ii. 343. 



NEARLY the size of the Tame Swan : extent of 

 wing, from the tip of one to that of the other, four 

 feet eight inches : its beak is large and red, with 

 its tip palest : at the base of its upper mandible, near 

 the nostrils, is a bifid protuberance ; its under man- 

 dible is red on the sides and white beneath : the 

 irides are red : the prevailing colour of the plumage 

 is of a deep black, with all the primary quills, the 

 greater part of the secondaries, and part of the wing- 

 coverts white : the belly and thighs are cinereous : 

 the legs brownish flesh-colour. The female is desti- 

 tute of the basal protuberance on the beak. 



This bird inhabits various parts of New Holland, 



