218 WILD SWAN. Class U. 



GENUS XXIV. DUCK. 



Bill strong, flat, or depressed, and commonly 

 furnished at the end with a nail ; the edges 

 divided into sharp lamella. 



Nostrils small and oval. 



Tongue broad, edges near the base fringed. 



Feet ; middle toe the longest. 



1. Wild Anas Cygnus. A. rostro semi- Le Cygne sauvage. £rmo« au. 



Swan. cylindrico atro, cera flavaj \i.2Q2.Tah.2B. Hist.dJois. 



corporealbo. Lath. Ind. orn. ix. 3. PI Enl. QIS. 



833. id. Syn. vi. 433. id. Labod. Scopoli, No. 66. 



Sup. i. 272. id. Sup. ii. 341. Schwane. Kram. 338. 



id. Lin. Tr. iv. 105. iah. Anas Cygnus ferus. Gm. Lin. 



12. 



501. 



Gesner av. 373. Swan. Faun. Suec. sp. IO7. 



Wild Swan, Elk, or Hooper. Banis Vild Svane. Cimlris 

 Wil. orn. 356. Snabel-Svane. Brunnich,Q'i. 



Rail Syn. av. 136. Br. Zool. 149. add. plates. 

 Edw. av. 150. Arct. Zool. ii. 262. 



-1- HE wild swan frequents our coasts in hard 

 winters in large flocks, but as far as we can in- 

 form ourselves, does not breed in Great Britain. 

 3Iarti}i * acquaints us, that swans come in Oc- 

 tober, in great numbers to Liiigey, one of the 

 IVestern Isles, and continue there till March, 

 when they retire more northward to breed. A 



* Descr. JVest. Isles, 71- 



