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frequent. In the outer groups of Scottish islands it is of 
somewhat more common occurrence, and in the eighteenth 
century bred in Orkney. 
CYGNUS BEWICKTY, Yarrell. BEWICK’S 
SWAN. 
In January 1891* a Swan with a broken foot was found 
on a small pond (about twenty yards wide) close to the 
sea-coast brows at Orrisdale. It was taken with some 
difficulty, but though its captor tried to keep it alive, it 
refused to eat at the farm to which it had been taken, and 
was shortly found dead on the ‘dub’ to which he had 
restored it. This specimen, a Bewick’s Swan, was mounted 
by T. Picken, of Manchester, who reported it in the Field 
as a Whooper, and is in the possession of Mr. F. Nicholson, 
of Douglas (Zool., 1891, p. 218). On New Year’s Day 1895 
Mr. E. Turner shot on Langness a specimen now in his 
possession. On lst March 1897 Mr. Leach saw a specimen 
in the flesh in the shop of Mr. Coburn, taxidermist, 
Douglas, In December 1899 a flock of Swans was 
observed on the Calf, and one was shot at or near a small 
piece of water in the south of that islet. It proved to be 
of this species, and came into the hands of the late 
Mr. G. D. L. Cary, proprietor of the Calf. 
As remarked under the last heading, the unidentified 
Swans reported from time to time on Manx waters should 
usually, in all likelihood, be referred to this species. 
In Ireland, and especially in Ulster, Bewick’s Swan is of 
frequent though irregular appearance, vastly more numerous 
1 The winter of 1890-91 (a severe one) was a noted one for Swans in Ireland 
and elsewhere (Vert. Fauna of Lakeland, pp. 256, 263; Birds of Ireland, p. 186 ; 
Zool., 1891, pp. 192, 252). 
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