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THE BIRDS OF HAMPSHIRE. 
16S. Cygnus musicus, Whooper Swan. 
Wild Swan. Hooper. 
A winter visitor to all parts of the coast of the county 
and Isle of Wight. 
Sometimes numerous in severe weather, but rarely 
straying inland. 
Longcroft^ records flocks of a hundred at Emsworth 
in 1800. 
In Hawker's "Diary" are several notes of their occur- 
rence and his pursuit of them off Keyhaven. Between 
1802 and 1853 he shot thirty-eight. On one occasion 
(February 5th, 1838), he knocked down eight at one shot, 
though he bagged only six of them. 
In the winters of 1823, 1829, and 1838 they seem to 
have been specially numerous. 
In Lord Malmesbury's collection at Heron Court there 
is an old male killed on the Avon, among twenty-nine 
others, in February, 1838, which weighed 22 lbs. 
Most local collections contain examples of this species, 
and occurrences have been noted inland at Southwick 
(Mc Arthur); Headly (Curtis), and Alresford. 
Mr. Rake has noted it among those species observed 
from his garden at Fordingbridge. 
' "Hundred of Bosmeie." 
