154 REMARKS ON BEWICK’S SWAN. 
ternal characters in which it differs from the Hooper, 
that I should no longer have deferred to describe it 
as a new bird to ornithologists had I not been antici- 
pated by Mr. Yarrell. 
Of the habits and manners of this species little 
could be ascertained from a brief inspection of a 
wounded individual; I may remark, however, that, 
when on the water, it had somewhat the air and 
appearance of a Goose, being almost wholly devoid of 
that grace and majesty by which the Mute Swan is 
so advantageously distinguished. It appeared to be 
a shy and timid bird, and could only be approached 
near by stratagem, when it intimated its apprehension 
by uttering its call. It carefully avoided the society 
of a Mute Swan which was on the same piece of 
water. 
On the 28th of Febrnary, 1830, at half-past ten 
A.M., seventy-three Swans were observed flying 
over Crumpsall in a south-easterly direction at a 
considerable elevation. They flew abreast, form- 
ing an extensive line like those seen on the 10th 
of December, 1529; like them, too, they were 
mistaken for Wild Geese by most persons who 
saw them with whom I had an opportunity of con- 
versing on the subject; but their superior dimensions, 
the whiteness of their plumage, their black feet, easily 
distinguished as they passed overhead, and their 
reiterated calls, which first directed my attention to 
them, were so strikingly characteristic that skilful 
