lake or stream in the Australian bush, the child- 

 ren of royalty may be praising its strange and 

 rare beauty in their distant English home. Every 

 year hundreds of these fine birds are killed to 

 obtain the soft white down with which their 

 breasts are covered. Some of the aboriginal 

 names for the Swan are Mullwee, Mulgo, 

 Goljak Gullwanyick, &c. 



