MUTE SWAN. 



NATATORES 



205 

 ANATID^E. 









THE MUTE SWAN. 

 Cygnus olor. 



Tame 

 Mute 



Sivan, 

 Swan, 



Anas o/o r, 



M 



Cygnus 



mansuetuS) Domestic 



Anas olor, Cygne tubercule, 



Cygnus 



PENN. Brit. Zool. vol. ii. p. 221. 

 BEWICK, Brit. Birds, vol. ii. p. 286. 

 JENVNS, Brit. Vert. p. 228. 

 GOULD, Birds of Europe, pt. vii. 

 TEMM. Man. d'Ornith. t. ii. p. 830. 

 pt. iv. p. 529. 



OUR Mute Swan is one of the most graceful as well as 

 the largest of British Birds, and at the same time so well 

 known and appreciated, that minute details of its cha- 

 racters, or its value, are unnecessary, beyond pointing out 

 those external differences by which it may be readily dis- 

 tinguished from either of the species already described. 



The most obvious difference, and that which will imme- 

 diately strike the observer on comparing the representation 



