BEWICK'S SWAN. 



Cygnus bewicki, Yarrell. 

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This Swan was first shown to be distinct from the last-mentioned species by 

 Yarrell in 1829, and is said to have been also recognised about the same time by 

 R. Wingate of Newcastle. It regularly visits Scotland, more particularly the 

 Hebrides, and often in hard winters England and Wales. It is said by some to be 

 rarer than the Whooper in the last-mentioned countries, but Lord Lilford considered 

 that the one species was at least as common a visitor as the other in winter to the 

 eastern coast and inland waters of England. In severe weather Bewick's Swan 

 appears on the Irish coast in large flocks, and, according to Sir R. Payne-Gal Iwey, is 

 more common than the larger species. 



The summer home of Bewick's Swan is within the Arctic Circle in North-eastern 

 Europe and Asia, but I find, according to my authorities, that its range lies more to 

 the eastward than that of the Whooper. 



The nests and eggs of the two species closely resemble each other, and I can 

 discover no account of their habits differing in any particular. Seebohm describes 

 the notes of Bewick's Swan as a " musical bark." 



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