Cuass IL. TAME SWAN. 
Anas Olor. A. rostro rubro, ba- -Ploéé’s hist. Staff. 228. 
si tuberculo carnoso nigro, Le Cygne. Brisson av. vi. 288. 
corpore albo. Lath. Ind, Hist. dois. 1x. 1. 
orn. 834. id. Syn. vi. 436. Anas Cygnus mansuetus. Gm. 
id. Sup. ii. 342. Lin. 501. 
Le Cygne. Belon av. 151. Swan. Faun. Suec. sp. 107. 
Gesner av. 371. Schwan. Frisch, ii. 152. 
Cygno, Cisano. Aldr. av. Danis Tam Svyane. Brunnich, 
rire 44. 
Wil. orn. 355. ’ Br. Zool. 149. add. plates. 
Raii Syn. av. 136. Arct. Zool. ii. 265. 
Edw. av. 150. 
THIS is the largest of the British birds. It 
is distinguished externally from the wild swan ; 
first, by its size, being much larger, weighing 
sometimes twenty-five pounds: secondly, by 
the bill, which in this is red, and the tip and 
sides black, and the skin between the eyes and 
bill of the same color. Over the base of the 
upper mandible projects a black callous knob; 
the whole plumage in old birds is white; in 
young ones ash colored till the second year; the 
* This is called game, because it is only found in that state in 
Great Britain. In Russia, and particularly in Siberia, it is found 
wild, and is in those countries very rarely kept tame; neither does 
it extend so far to the North. This species is unknown about 
Padua, or perhaps in other parts of Italy. It must therefore be 
from the other species which the poets formed their fable of the 
music of the swan. 
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