PLATE CCXXVIII. 



Cygue fuuvage. Buf. ix. p, 3.— PL Enl. 913. 

 Wild Swan. Will. (Angl.) p. 356. t. 69- 



Brit, ZooL U. N° 264. 



Phil. Tranf. lvi. t. yi.p. ^^}5.f, I. 2. 

 Whistling Swan. Jrct. ZooL 11. 469.— FL Scot. I. JV" 



CO-k — Lath. Gen. St/n. vi. p. 433. — M -S'wjjp. 



p. 212. 



The wild and tame fwan are confidered by the beft informed Orni- 

 tbologifts as two diftinft fpecies : the former is found only in a ftate 

 of uncultivated nature, having never been yet reduced to the bondage 

 of domeftication^ while the latter, foftered and prote6led by the hand 

 of man, has been rendered fubfervient, if not ufeful, and thus repaid 

 in an ample manner the pains beftowed upon its cultivation . 



From a fimilarity of names, and the ideas we affociate in general ta 

 the appellatives of wild and tame, it might be readily concluded that 

 the tame fwan muft be the domeilicated offspring of the former ; but 

 this is not ihe cafe : liiougli isearly allied, they are obvioully diffimilar, 

 and offer characters that we can fcarcely helitate to coniider as fpeci- 

 lically d!ftin6t. 



In the lirft place, it will be obferved, that the wild fwan is fmaller 

 than the tame kind : nor does lliis arife from the effe6l of domeftica- 

 tion merely, for both the fpecies are found in a ftate of wildnefs in the 

 northern part of Europe, America, and Afia ; and in all thofe parts are 

 known with fuliicient accuracy to difpel doubt in this particular. 



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