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NA TA TORES. A NA TIDJE. 



PLATE CCXLI. 



BEWICKS SWAN. 



CYGNUS BEWICKII. 



Bewick's Swan, which has of late years been recognised 

 by Mr. Yarrell as differing, not only in size, but also in 

 many other respects from the hooper, or whistling swan, is a 

 winter visitant to Great Britain, more numerous in Ireland 

 than England ; it appears, however, to visit Britain princi- 

 pally during the most severe winters. The greater attention 

 that has of late years been paid to the subject of ornithology, 

 has apparently opened the eyes of sportsmen wider, or the 

 prices that are paid for new species, have made persons 

 generally more careful in examining what they obtain. To 

 these causes we probably owe the tardy justice, at last done 

 to several species formerly unrecognized. Bewick himself, 

 with whose name this species is now, out of compliment, 

 allied, must have been acquainted with this bird, since he 

 has given a representation of its head as a vignette to his 

 " Elk or Hooper " (synonymous with our whistling swan), 

 although his acquaintance with this species appears not to 

 have been sufficient to enable him to distinguish it from its 

 congener. In this vignette the black portion of the tip of 

 the beak extends beyond, and surrounds the- orifice of the 



