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2. 
MUTE 
SW. 
Manners. 
Bb VY) C.K. 
In the neighbourhood of Tzaritzin, on the Lewer Volga, a great 
number of Swans appear about the 20th February, particularly upon 
the Sarpa, and towards the lower grounds of the 4chtuba: they are 
of two kinds; but that which diftinguifhes itfelf by its very fharp 
{cream, and has the lower part of its bill yellow, is the moft nume- 
rous *. Among the Kalmucs, the Lama Dardfba had for his title Erdeni 
Lama Baatur Khan Taidfhi, which fignifies noble father of fouls, brave 
prince of Swans +. 
The circumftance of the trachea entering the keel of the breafi- 
bone, has been before noticed in this work, as well as by many authors 
before ; but as no words are able to convey a fufficient idea without 
engravings, Dr. Parfons has given a good reprefentation in the Pbil. 
Tranf.; another will be alfo found in the Lin. Tranfaftions above re- 
ferred to. 
Anas olor, Ind. Orn. ii. p.824. 2.—Ger. Orn. v. t. §53- 
Mute Swan, Gen. Syz. vi. p. 436. 2. 
RIRDS of this fpecies fometimes live together in fociety with per- 
fect complacency: two female Swans have for three or four years 
paft agreed to affociate, and have had yearly each a brood, together 
bringing up-eleven young. ‘They fate by turns, and never quarrelled. 
This is not the only inftance which has come under our obfervation ; 
and numbers are to be feen together in many waters in this kingdom ; 
but the moft noble fwannery is, we believe, very near ALbot/bury, Der/et, 
-about a quarter of a mile to the weft of which, in the open part of the 
fleet, are kept 6 or 7oo—formerly 1,500 Swans tf, the royalty be- 
longing anciently to the abbot, fince to the family of Strangeways, and 
now to the Earl of I/cheffer. ‘That this fpecies is very pugnacious, is 
* Ruffia (8vo. 1783) vol. iv. p. 283. + dd. p. 205. 
Z As far as 7000,—Maton’s Tour, 1. p. 726 
known 
