ClafsII. TAME SWAN. 44I 



This fpecies is lefs than the tame fwan. The Defer, 

 lower part of the bill is black ; the bafe of it and the 

 fpace between that and the eyes is covered with a 

 naked yellow skin ; the eyelids are bare and yellow : 

 the whole plumage in old birds is of a pure white; 

 the down is very foft and thick : the legs dusky. The 

 cry of this kind is very loud, and may be heard at a 

 great diftance, from which it is Ibmetimes called 

 the Hooper. 



II. The TAME SWAN. 



Le Cygne. Belona<v. 151. Le Cygne. BriJJbn a-v. vi. 288. 



Gefner av. 371. Anas Cygnus manfuetus. Lin. 

 Cygno, Cifano. J/dr. a<v, iii. 1. fyft. 194. 



Wil. om. 355. Swan. Faun. Suec.jp. 107. 



Rail fyn. a<v. 136. Danis Tarn Svane. Bruntticb 44. 



Edw.av. 150. Br. Zool. 149. add. plates. 

 Plod's hift. Staff. 228. 



THIS is the largeft of the Britijh birds ; it is Defcr 

 diftinguifhed externally from the wild fwan ; 

 firft by its fize, being much larger : fecondly by the 

 bill, which in this is red, and the tip and fides black, , 

 and the skin between the eyes and bill is of the fame 

 color : over the bafe of the upper mandible projects a 

 black callous knob : the whole plumage in old birds 

 is white; in young ones aih-colored ; the legs dusky : 

 but Dr. Plott mentions a variety found on the Trent 



p. 141, 175. according to the obfervation of that illuftrious writer, 

 the Lapland lakes are filled with the lainvx of the Knat. 

 (culex pipiens. Lin.fyjl. 602.) or fome other infeel, that depofues 

 its eggs in the water ; which being an agreeable food to water fowl, 

 is another caufe of their refort to thofe defeats. 



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