43§ DUG K. 



tors, into the proudeft attitudes imaginable, as if defirous of being 

 viewed. Will fwiin on that element falter than a man can walk: 

 it however cuts but an inelegant figure on land. Is very ftrong, 

 and fometimes exceeding fierce •, has not unfrequently been known 

 to throw down and trample under feet youths of fifteen or fixteen 

 years of age; and an old one to break the leg of a man with a 

 ftroke of the wings. Said to be very long-lived, and frequently 

 to arrive at the hundredth year. The young not perfect in plumage 

 till the fecond year. Lays the firfl: egg in February, and continues 

 laying every other day to the amount of fix, feven, or eight 

 eggs ; thefe are placed on a bed of grafs near the water, and fits 

 fix weeks. It feeds on both fijh and herbage. The flelh of the old 

 ones is hard and ill-tafted ; that of the young yet efteemed, 

 though infinitely more valued by the antients than in the prefent 

 age. 



3« Black-necked Swan, Boug. Voy, p. zq.— Fernet. Voy. ii~ p. 26. ch. 9. 



BLACK-NECKED 

 SW. 



Description. 



'ipHIS fpecies is faid to have a red bill : the plumage the fame 

 with the other Swan, except that the neck is of a velvet 

 black : the feet are fieih-coloured. 

 Place-. This fpecies inhabits the Falkland IJlands, Rio del Plata, and 



the ftraits of Magalhaen. A bird is likewife mentioned in HawkeJ- 

 wortFs Collection of Voyages, vol. iii. p. 101. 117, faid to be 

 black and white, much larger than a Pelican, and refembling 

 that bird. Poffibly the above may be meant by this Ihort de- 

 fcription. 



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