436 D U C K. 



Ikins of the body are worn by the inhabitants; befides which, that 

 of the legs, taken off whole, is ufed for purfes, and appears not 

 unlike Jhagreen. 



This fpecies has a lharp loud cry, which it chiefly makes 

 while flying, and may be heard a great way off, frequently when 

 fo high in the air as to be out of fight *. The wind-fife is of a 

 Angular conftruction, entering the cheft a little way ; from thence 

 reflected in form of a trumpet ; after which it enters a fecond 

 time, when, dividing into two branches, it goes on to join the 

 lungs f. It is perhaps from this fcructure that the bird is enabled 

 to produce fo ftrong a voice ; whereas in the next, commonly 

 called the tame fpecies, the wind- fife enters at once into the lungs, 

 the confequence of which is, that the utmoft noife it can make 

 is a mere hifs. 



2. Anas Cygnus manfuetus, Lin. Syjl. i. p. 194. 1. — Faun. Suec. N° 107. g.— 



+- MUTE SW. £ru „. No ^.—Kram. El. p. 338. 2. B.—Frifch. pi. 152. 



Le Cygne, Brif. Orn. vi. p. 288. w.—Suf. Oif. ix. p. 3. pi. i.—Pl. Enl. 



Tame Swan, Rail Syn. p. 136. A. I. — Will. Orn.p. 355. pi. 69. — Albin,\\u 



pi. 96. — Edw. pi. 150 (the head.) — Br. Zoo/, ii. N° 265. pi. 60. 

 Mute Swan, Aril. Zool. N° 470. 



Br. Muf. Lev. Muf. 



Description. 'TTHIS differs from the whiftling Swan in being bigger : weight 

 about twenty-five pounds. The bill red ; the tip and fides 

 black ; and at the bafe on the forehead a callous knob : the plu- 

 mage the fame in every particular as the former. 



* Hiji. Louif. ii. p. 1 13. — Swans in flying follow one another fo clofely, that 

 the bill of the one lays on the tail of the foremoft. — HiJl. de Lyon, i. p. 212. 

 f Will. Orn. p. 356. 357. 



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