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musician, it is said, kept working his head as if delighted 

 with his own performance." 



These birds are found wild in Russia and Siberia ; and 

 Mr. Bennett observes that it is found in a wild state in 

 almost every country in Europe. Bechstein particularly 

 mentions Lithuania, Poland, and eastern Prussia. In 

 Germany, young birds that have not been pinioned migrate 

 in autumn. M. Temminck says it is abundant in Holland, 

 and is found in France, Provence, and Italy. Mr. Strick- 

 land says this species visits Smyrna Bay in winter ; and 

 the Russian naturalists include it among the birds found in 

 the countries between the Black and the Caspian Seas. 



In England, Dr. Turner notices the Swan with the black 

 tubercle on the beak, in his book on Birds, published in 

 1544, and Sibbald includes it in his Fauna of Scotland, in 

 1684. They were more abundant formerly than at the 

 present time, though still existing in a comparatively wild 

 state on many rivers. The author of the Journal of a 

 Naturalist mentions having seen more than forty at one 

 time, on the great swan-pool that some years ago existed 

 near the city of Lincoln, but has been since drained ; and 

 the great swannery of the Earl of Ilchester, at Abbotsbury, 

 near the coast in Dorsetshire, is well known. About 

 eighty Swans are there preserved, and as the cygnets are 

 not caught to be marked or pinioned, the interesting sight 

 of several of these fine large birds on the wing together is 

 often witnessed. The water is strictly watched and 

 guarded, and in the season is used as a decoy. 



The adult bird has the nail at the point of the beak, the 

 edge of the mandible on each side, the base, the lore to the 

 eye, the orifice of the nostrils and the tubercle, black ; the 

 rest of the beak reddish orange ; the irides brown ; the 

 head, neck, and all the plumage pure white ; the legs, toes, 

 and interdigital membranes black. 



