..WILD SWAIT. 
-of modulated song ; yet the shrill and scarce]'' 
•diversified notes of it's loud, clarion sounds 
dilTer Vv'idely from the tender melody, th 
•sweet and brilliant variety, of our chantini 
;birds." 
The Song of tlie Dying Swan, as fabled b^ 
■the ancients, anxi adopted by modern Poets 
though acknowledged by BufFon to be a fic 
4;ion, he yet seem unwilling to discard from th( 
list of agreeable delusions. 
We shall enlarge on the history and gene 
lal habits of Swans, when we introduce ; 
'figure of that noble and very elegant bird, th- 
Tame or Common Swan. 
