440 WILD SWAN. ClafsII. 



marked with a fimilar fpot in both, if authors did 

 not agree to make the lough diver the female of that 

 bird, we fnould fuppofe this to be it. 



Genus XVIII. DUCKS. 



I. The WILD SWAN. 



Gejner a-v. 373. Schwane. Kram. 338. 



Wild Swan, Elk, or Hooper. Anas Cygnus ferus. Lin.fyfti. 



Wil. orn. 356. 194. 



Raiifyn. a-v. 136. Swan. Faun. Suec.fp. 107. 



Ed-iv.a-v. 150. Danis Vild Svane. Cimbris Sna« 



Le Cygne fauvage. Brijfon a-v. bel-Svane. Brunmch 44. 



vi. 292. tab. 28. Br* Zool. 149. add, plates.] 



THE wild fwan frequents our coafls in hard 

 winters in large flocks, but as far as we can in- 

 form ourfelves does not breed in Great-Britain. 

 Martin * acquaints us, that fwans come in October in 

 great numbers to Lingey, one of the zvejtern ijles -, and 

 continue there till March., when they retire more 

 northward to breed. Thefe, as well as moftother water 

 fowl, prefer for that purpofe thofe places that are left 

 frequented by mankind : accordingly we find that 

 the lakes and forefts of the diftant Lapland are filled 

 during fummer with myriads of water fowl, and 

 there fwans, geefe, the duck tribe, goofanders, divers, 

 &c. pafs that feafon ; but in autumn return to us, 

 and to other more hofpitable fhores f . 



* Defer, weft. ijles> 71. 



t Flora Lapponica, 273. Oewvres de M. de Materials, torn. 3.' 



p. 141, 



