162 COMMON SHELDRAKE 
than the Whooper, which in England is the commoner bird, 
and sometimes occurring in immense flocks (as many as 
five hundred in Co, Armagh). It is seemingly rarer than 
the Whooper on the neighbouring English coasts. It is 
recorded for the Scottish isles, but its abundance there, 
relatively to that of the kindred species, does not appear 
to be ascertained. 
[CYGNUS OLOR (Gmel.). MUTE SWAN. 
This bird has been kept with more or less regularity at 
various places in the Isle of Man, as on the River Dhoo, at 
Kirby near Douglas, at the Mooragh Park at Ramsey (to 
which a pair was presented by King Edward. after his 
visit in 1903), on the ponds in the grounds of Bishop’s 
Court, and at Kentraugh, where the bay at Mount Gawne 
is regularly resorted to by the birds, which often also 
wander to Castletown. Escapes have sometimes occurred, 
and the birds have been killed or captured at other places.] 
[A specimen of the AUSTRALIAN BLACK SWAN, 
Chenopis atrata, was a few years back obtained off Langness 
by the late Mr. Kinvig, who was much astonished when 
he discovered what the strange bird was which he had 
brought down. ] 
TADORNA CORNUTA (S. G. Gmelin). 
COMMON SHELDRAKE. 
The east side of Castletown Bay, along one side of the 
narrow peninsula of Langness, has at low water a con- 
