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often alights on the commons near the Tweed and Till ; the whole 

 corpfe encamping, as it were, till their ftrength is renewed by 

 relt and food. We have fome of them alfo in winter on the 

 fame heaths, and on the fea-coaft. It is of the fize of a domeftic 

 heath-goofe, not fed in the grounds of better culture. The beak 

 is above two inches long, dentated on the fides, black at the tip, 

 and towards the bafe, and of a faffron-colour in the middle. 

 The eyes are large, with a white line under them. The whole 

 upper plumage is grey; the under one white, with a caft of grey 

 on the breaft. The legs and bread are of a faffron-colour, and 

 the claws black. The order obferved by them in their long 

 flights is very curious, rank and file, like that of Virgil's cranes *. 



13. In frofls and fnows of a long continuance, the flately 

 Swanfn) fometimes repairs for refuge to the rivers Tweed and 

 Till, and there receives from the fportfman the untimely fate it 

 would efcape. 



* JEn. Ix. 



(n) Cygnus, Cycnus. Bellon. Av. Icon. 30. a. lene. Cygnus feruf. Will. Orn. p. 212. 

 Raj. Av. p. 136. n 2. Anas roflro femicylindrico ; cera flava ; corpore albo. L'nn. Faun. 

 Suec. p. 31. n. 88. 



WILD SWAN, EI.K, or HOOPER. Dale. Harw. App, p. 403. 



