St4 
7% 
BLACK- 
NECKED 
SWAN. 
DeEscriprion. 
50 
BLACK AND 
WHITE GOOSE. 
Description, 
DUC) Kh. 
‘Cows were found there*. In 1726, two of them were brought alive 
to Batavia, as confirmed by Valentyn +: feveral being found in New 
Holland, near Dick Hartog’s Bay. 
Since that time, our later circumnavigators, from Captain Cook to 
the prefent time, have found them every where in thefe parts, eight 
or nine having been met with together, and they are faid to fly one 
afier another like Wild Geefe; but the general manner, &c. remains 
yet to be afcertained.' ‘The natives of New Holland call this fpecies 
Mulgo. 
Anas nigricollis, Ind. Orn. ii. p. 834. 3. 
Anas melancorypha, Cygne Chilien, Molin. Chil. (Fr. ed.) p. 213. 
Black-necked Swan,.Gen. Syn. vi. p. 436. 3. 
OLINA -obferves, that it is the fize of the European Swan: the 
head and half the neck black; the reft glofly white: the female 
has commonly fix young, which it never leaves alone in the neft, but 
carries them on its back every time it goes out in fearch of food. 
THE fize of this bird is uncertain: the bill is not unlike that of 
the Wild Swan, extending far backwards, and taking in the eyes: 
it is yellowifh at the bafe, red in the middle; the point as well as the 
under mandible pale: the head, neck, beginning of the back, major 
* Phil. Tranf. v. 20. p. 361. 
+ See Valentyn Oud en Nieuw Oof Indien. Amf?. 1726, where it is obferved 
that two, and afterwards more black fwans were found in Nea Holland: two of 
them were brought alive to Batavia. This account accompanied by an engraving, 
reprefenting the Lagoon, with the black fwans fwimming init; and the catching of 
one by the boat’s crew. 
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