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eggs, " SO big," says Hearne, " that one of them is 

 sufficient for a moderate man, without bread or any 

 other addition." They are of a dirty white with a 

 shade of olive green. As in the Tame species, the 

 battles between the males are frequent and obstinately 

 contested, sometimes lasting for a whole day, and not 

 uncommonly terminating in the death of one or other 

 of the combatants. 



This species, as we have before observed, submits to 

 captivity with as good a grace as the other; but it is 

 not quite so ornamental in one particular. Instead of 

 assuming the elegant curve, which constitutes one of 

 the greatest beauties of the Tame Swan, its neck is 

 more habitually stretclicd upwards in such a manner 

 as to give it the appearance of great disproportionate 

 length. 



