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dogs. The "Whistling Swan wants the. grace that character- 

 izes the Tame Swan ; its neck is carried upright, without the 

 elegant arch of its domesticated relative. It is not quite so 

 large as the Tame Swan ; the expanse of its wings is about 

 eight feet. 



CHENOPIS. (Gr. XTJV, a Goose ; ty, a face.) 



Atrata (Lat. blackened), the Black Sicn. 



" Like a Black Swan," was formerly a well known proverb, 

 analogous to the Horse Marines of the present day : unfortu- 

 nately for the proverb, a swan has been discovered in Australia, 

 the whole of whose plumage is a jetty black, with the excep- 

 tion of the quill feathers, which are white. It has been domes- 

 ticated in this country, and may be seen in St. James' Park, 

 eagerly seeking after the crumbs offered by juvenile hands. It 

 is rather smaller than the Whistling Swan. 

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