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bird, and was shot on the 15th of May (year unknown), at Port 

 Clarence, Tees month. 



Family. ANATID^, Leach. 

 Ul. CYGNUS, Linnaus. 

 30. Wild Swan oe Whoopee. C. eeeus, Ray. 



Cygmisferus, Bewick, Hist. Brit. Birds, Ed. 1847, II., 268. 

 ,, Yarrell, Hist. Brit. Birds, Ed. III., 187. 



A rather common winter visitant. Prestwick Car was a great 

 resort of this species, which was seen there every winter. It 

 also frequently visited Eenham Elats, where Edmond Crawshay, 

 Esq., has shot several. 



In the winter of 1871 three of these noble birds joined the 

 mute Swans on Gosforth Lake. A hole having been made in 

 the ice for their accommodation they all fed together, and the 

 strangers became remarkably tame ; they were at length cap- 

 tured and pinioned. In the spring all three disappeared ; they 

 had wandered, probably obeying the impulse to migrate, and two 

 of them may have fallen a prey to the fox, as only one returned, 

 and is still on the lake. 



30. Bewick's Swan. C. minoe, {Pallas.) 



Cygnus Beiviclcii, Bewick, Hist. Brit. Birds, Ed. 1847, II., 273. 

 Yarrell, Hist. Brit. Birds, Ed. 2, III., 194. 



A winter visitant, and quite as common as the Whooper. 



It is rather surprising that Bewick's Swan was not recognized 

 as a British species till 1829. In January of that year I pur- 

 chased an example of it in a fruiterer's shop in Newcastle ; it 

 was shot out of a flock of about forty, at Prestwick Car, a day 

 or two before. I at once perceived its specific distinctness from 

 the common species, having carefully examined both its external 

 and internal characters ; it was a male. On the 7th of February 

 foUowing, another examjile was killed at Haydon Bridge, and 

 was sent to the Newcastle Museum. This specimen I also 



