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examined, and found it corresponded exactly in every respect to 

 my Q-WTi. On dissection this second example proved to be a fe- 

 male, but the other internal characters were found to be similar 

 to those of my specimen. These two Swans I believe were the 

 first fully recognized individuals of this species in England. 

 The Haydon Bridge example went into the hands of the late 

 Mr. E. E. Wingate, to stuff for the ISTewcastle Museum, and is 

 still preserved there. My specimen I prepared myself, and it 

 has ever since formed part of my collection. A notice of the 

 supposed new Swan was drawn up by the late Mr. E. E. Win- 

 gate, and read on the 20th of October, 1829, at a meeting of the 

 "Natural History Society of ITorthumberland, Durham, and 

 IS'ewcastle-upon-Tyne," and was published the following year 

 in the Transactions of that Society, Yol. I., p. 1 ; but by some 

 unaccountable inadvertency my specimen was not alluded to. 



Mr. Yarrell read at the meeting of the Linnsean Society, on 

 the 19th of February, 1830, a description of the supposed new 

 species, which was afterwards published in the Transactions of 

 that Society, Vol. XYI., p. 445, 1833. It appears that that 

 gentleman had previously (24th of ]S"ovcmber, 1829) given some 

 account of the distinguishing characters of Bewick's Swan to 

 the Zoological Club of the Linnsean Society. 



In N"ovember, 1829, seven specimens of the bird were killed 

 by right and left shot, upon Sweethope Lough, by the game- 

 keeper of the late Sir John Trevelyan, Bart., of "Wallington. 

 In February, 1837, five specimens of this Swan were shot out of 

 a flock of eleven, upon a large fish pond, at Blagdon, by the 

 gamekeeper of the late Sir Matthew "White Eidley, Bart. ; two 

 of these are preserved in my collection. 



The Polish Swan ( Cygnus immutabiUs) is mentioned as having 

 occurred at Hartlepool, on the authority of Mr. J. H. Gurney, 

 Jun., in Harting's "Handbook of British Birds," p. 154. I am 

 informed, however, by Mr. Gurney himself, that the authority 

 of this notice rests only on a newspaper paragraph. I therefore 

 do not venture to include it in this catalogue. 



