160 WHOOPER SWAN 
CYGNUS MUSICUS, Bechstein. 
WHOOPER SWAN. 
Manx (for Swan in general), *O//ay (M.S. D., Cr., and Lev. xi. 18). 
(Cf. Sc. Gaelic and Irish, Hala; Breton, Alar’ch; Latin, 
Olor.) 
The species of the Wild Swans observed from time to 
time on our coast has seldom been ascertained. It is 
perhaps probable that the next species, much the most 
frequent in Ireland, is more numerously represented here 
than the present. 
A specimen in the Distington collection, labelled as a 
male from the Isle of Man, was however a Whooper 
(Zool., 1899, p. 420). Mr. Kermode (Y. LZ. MM, p. 533) 
assigns to the same heading birds seen in 1880 at the Dog 
Mills, Bride, and at Peel, 20th March 1892, ‘within a few 
yards of the piers’; but the occurrence at Orrisdale, 10th 
January 1891, is evidently that detailed under the next 
heading. During that month Swans were seen or obtained 
in several Manx localities. A flock was reported at Port 
St. Mary, a specimen, said to be a Whooper, was shot by 
Mr. W. Kissack at Scarlett, and another came close to the 
Victoria Pier at Douglas, and was twice ineffectually fired 
at from thence (Zool., 1891, p. 218). 
Mr. Crellin notes that a good number of ‘ Wild Swans’ 
visited the island during the winter of 1892-93. 
About the middle of February 1897 a few Swans, accord- 
ing to Mr. Crellin, passed over Ramsey Bay. 
The Whooper is a rare and irregular visitor to Ireland ; 
it has been recorded most frequently from Ulster, and has 
occurred both in Down and Antrim. In Galloway and 
north-western England its visits are irregular and in- 
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