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BEWICK'S SWAN. 



Cygnus Bewickii, YARRELL. SELBY. 



" " JENYNS. EYTON. GOULD. 



Cygnus A Swan. Bewickii Of Bewick. 



THE Swan thus denominated in honour of Bewick, our 

 own Bewick, whose name must ever be associated with 

 'British Birds,' appears to be distributed over the northern 

 parts' of Europe, Asia, and America, and the islands of the 

 Arctic Ocean. Temminck says that it breeds in Iceland and 

 Siberia. 



In Yorkshire, Edward Dawson, Esq., son of my friend, 

 Gr. P. Dawson, Esq., of Osgodby Hall, near Selby, has informed 

 me of his having shot three of these birds at a shot on 

 Skipwith Common, about the 14th. of February, 1855. There 

 was a flock of five, the other two were the old birds. One 

 was shot near Bawtry; several have occurred at different 

 times near Burlington. 



In Cambridgeshire, so J. R. Little, Esq., of St. John's 

 College, has written me word, a flock of twenty was seen on 

 Whittlesea Wash, about the middle of March, 1855, of which 

 three were shot. A few near Wisbeach, on the estuary of 

 the Nene, in the middle of December, 1849. In the county 

 of Durham, one was shot near Stockton-on-Tees, in the 

 winter of 1850. Six are said to have been seen in January, 

 1830, near St. Just, in Cornwall. In March, 1845, three 

 were shot near Somersham, and three near Grodman Chester, 

 in the county of Huntingdon. In Norfolk they are not 

 unfrequent in the neighbourhood of the sea, in winter. In 

 Oxfordshire two near Oxford, in the winter of 1837-8. In 

 Derbyshire a flock of eleven appeared on the Trent, near 

 Melbourne, in February, 1845, and two of them were shot. 

 In Lancashire a flock of twenty-nine, one of which was shot 



