BIRDS OF IRELAND. 



Order NATATORES. 

 {Swimming Birds.) 



THE GREAT WILD SWAN. 



Hooper ; Whistling Swan. 



Cy gnus ferns, Ray. 



„ mtisicus, Beclist. 

 Anas cygnus, Linn. 



Visits Ireland occasionally, — perhaps regularly, — in 



winter. 



Op this species, as distinguished with certainty from Cygnus 

 Bewickii, I have the foUowing notes. In the winter of 1829-30, 

 a couple, shot in Strangford Lough, two miles from Newtownards, 

 were brought on sale to Belfast. An old male, shot on the coast 

 of Wexford in 1830, and a young male, since obtained, Avithin 

 four miles of Waterford, were purchased by Dr. R, J. Bm-kitt, 

 of that city, for his collection. Two birds, shot on the Wexford 

 coast in March 1837, were sent to Dublin, where they came under 



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