Class II. 



TAME SWAN. 



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Anas Olor. A. rostro rubro, ba- P loft's hist. Staff. 228. 



2. Tame.* 



si tuberculo carnoso nigro, 



corpora albo. Lath. hid. 



orn. 834. id. Syn. vi. 436. 



id. Sup. ii. 342. 

 Le Cygne. Belon av. 151. 

 Gesner av. 37 1 • 

 Cygno, Cisano. Aldr. av. 



iii. 1. 

 Wil. 0771. 355. 

 Rail Syn. av. 130. 

 Edw. av. 150. 



Le Cygne. Brisson av. vi. 288. 



Hist, d'ois. ix. 1. 

 Anas Cygnus mansuetus. Gm. 



Li?i. 501. 

 Swan. Faun. Suec. sp. IO7. 

 Schwan. Frisch, ii. 152. 

 Danis Tarn Svane. Brunnich, 



44. 

 Br. Zool. 149. add. plates. 



Jrct. Zool. ii. 265. 



X HIS is the largest of the British birds. It 

 is distinguished externally from the wild swan ; 

 first; by its size, being much larger, weighing 

 sometimes twenty-five pounds : secondly, by 

 the bill, which in this is red, and the tip and 

 sides black, and the skin between the eyes and 

 bill of the same color. Over the base of the 

 upper mandible projects a black callous knob ; 

 the whole plumage in old birds is white; in 

 young ones ash colored till the second year; the 



Descrip- 

 tion. 



* This Is called tame, because it is only found in that state in 

 Great Britain. In Russia, and particularly in Siberia, it is found 

 wild, and is in those countries very rarely kept tame ; neither does 

 it extend so far to the North, This species is unknown about 

 Padua, or perhaps in other parts of Italy. It must therefore be 

 from the other species which the poets formed their fable of the 

 music of the swan. 



