22 CHINESE SWAN. 



Wounded birds have frequently been completely 

 domesticated, and readily pair with the tame grey 

 Geese : the offspring are said to be larger than either, 

 but the characteristic marks of the wild bird still pre- 

 dominate. On the approach of every spring, how- 

 ever, they discover symptoms of great uneasiness, 

 frequently looking up into the air, and attempting to 

 go off: some whose wings have been cut have tra- 

 velled on foot in a northern direction, and have been 

 found at the distance of several miles from home j 

 others have actually succeeded in mounting into the 

 higher regions of the air, and joined a passing party 

 to the north ; and Wilson relates an anecdote of one 

 that had been caught alive in the autumn, which, 

 upon the reproduction of its quill-feathers in the fol- 

 lowing spring, actually joined a party sojourning 

 northward, and returned to its owner in the succeed- 

 ing autumn, accompanied by two companions. 



CHINESE SWAN. 



(Cygnus sinensis.) 



CY. griseo-albus, supra griseo-fuscescens, pedibus longioribus. 



Grey-white Swan above grey-brown, with the legs long. 



Anas cygnoides. Linn. Syst. Nat. 1. 194. Gmel. Syst. Nat. 1. 



502. Lath-llnd. Orn. 2. 838. 



Anser Guineensis. Briss. Orn. 6. 280. Rail, Syn. 138. 

 L'Oie de Guinee. Buff. Hist. Nat. Ois. 9. 72.pl. 3. Buff. PI. 



Enl. 347. Cuv. Reg. Anim. 1. 529. 



Chinese Goose. Penn.Arct.ZooL'2.571. Lath. Gen. Syn. 6. 447. 

 Swan Goose. Bew. Brit. Birds, 2. 281. 



