Tas WUTE SWAN. 
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Cygnus olor, Gmelinx. 
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Vernacular Names.—[Penr, V. W. Punjab; Koday, (Turki,) Yarkand.] 
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yiHIS species may be considered a pretty regular, 
though somewhat rare, cold-weather visitant to the 
Peshawer and Hazara Districts, and an occasional 
straggler to the Kohat and Rawal Pindi Districts 
and to the Trans-Indus portions of Sind. It has 
also, ferhaps, occurred on the Runn of Cutch. 
Outside our limits, this species has been seen in the 
K Abul River near Jellalabad, and is known to visit Northern 
Afghanistan pretty regularly. It is abundant on the Caspian.* 
It occurs and breeds in Western Turkestan and Central Siberia, 
and is found also in Kashgar, where it is said to be plentiful at 
Aksu, and further east at the Lob series of lakes, But specimens 
from this latter locality have yet to be compared, and it is 
not impossible that these eastern birds, as well as Radde’s and 
Prjevalski’s supposed o/or from South-east Siberia and South-east 
Mongolia, may really prove to have belonged to the more eastern 
species with feathered lores and orange-red bill and feet named 
by Swinhoe, C. david. 
The present species is also found pretty well throughout 
Europe, but becomes very rare towards the north, and in Great 
Britain never seems to occur in a truly wild state. It extends 
in winter to Northern Africa, Egypt and Asia Minor. 
THIS IS the tame Swan of Europe, so well known to all that 
it is needless to quote, from European writers, accounts of its 
habits which, here in India, I have never had any opportunity 
of observing in a wild state. 
This species has been, however, so seldom recorded as killed 
in India that it may be well to enumerate every instance of 
this which has come to my knowledge. 
* In 1877 Captain Butler learnt from some of the telegraph officers in the Persian 
Gulf that Swans had been occasionally seen about the head of that gulf and the 
mouths of the Euphrates, It is impossible to say to what species these birds may 
have belonged, 
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