54-a' 



WHISTLING SWAN. 



They breed in great multitudes in the lakes of Lapland; and refort 

 towards the more fouthern parts of Europe, during the fevere feafon. 

 Breed even in the Orkney ifles. 

 How TAKEN IN In Iceland they are an objeft of cliace. In Auguft they lofe their 

 Iceland. feathers to fuch a degree as not to be able to fly. The natives ,at 



that feafon, refort in great numbers to the places where they moil 

 abound ; and come provided with dogs, and aftive and ftrong horfesj 

 trained to the fport, and capable of paffing nimbly over the boggy 

 foil and marflies. The fwans will run as faft as a tolerable horfe. 

 The greater numbers are taken by the dogs, which are taught to 

 catch them by the neck, which caufes them to lofe their balance, 

 and become an eafy prey. Great ufe is made of the plumage : the 

 fiefh is eaten j and the fkin of the legs and feet, taken off entire, 

 looks like fhagreen, and is ufed forpurfes.- The eggs are colleded in 

 ImKamtschatka. the {pring for food *. In Kamtfchatka, where they abound both in 

 winter and fummer, they are alfo taken with dogs, in the moulting 

 feafon ; or killed with clubs. During winter they are taken'in the 

 unfrozen rivers, and form a conftant difli at the tables of the natives f- 

 Specific dis- This fpecies has feveral diftin£tions from the fpecies which we, in 

 TiNCTioNs. England, call the Tame Swan. In Rujfja this fpecies more fitly 

 clames the name, it being the kind moft commonly tamed in that 

 empire. The Whiftling Swan carries its neck quite erefl : the other 

 fwims witTi it arched. This is far inferior in fize. This has twelve 

 ribs on a fide; the Mute X only eleven. But the mod remarkable 

 is the ftrange figure of the windpipe, which falls into the cheft, then 

 turns back like a trumpet, and afterwards makes a fecond bend to 

 join the lungs. Thus it is enabled to utter a loud and Ihrill note. 

 The other Swan, on the contrary, is the mofl: filent of birds ; it can 

 do nothing more than hifs, which it does on receiving any provoca- 

 tion. The vocal kind emits its loud notes only when flying, or 



• Olaffen, 1. u8. f Defer. Kamtfchatka, ^g^. 



X We change the name of the Tame Swan into Mute, as the former name is 

 equivocal, and this fpecies emits no found. 



7 calling: 



