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ORNITHOLOGICAL REPORT FOR NORFOLE. 139 
this singular cross-bred Swan aie orange-yellow, and the feet 
large, a point noticed by the farm-servant when she assisted in 
liberating it from the egg. But the most striking feature about 
the bird is its long, thick neck, which, with the head and tail, 
are now almost white, the back and body only remaining 
blotched with slate-colour. The call of this hybrid is said to 
be fairly distinct from that of its parents, but I did not hear it. 
It generally lives by itself on a pond at Beeston, sometimes 
flying half a mile or so and returning. The Swan, which is its 
father, strongly objects to having it on the same piece of water, 
and this jealousy is thought by Mrs. Reynolds to mean that her 
hybrid is a male. 
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