bewick's swan. 
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in England." This might, however, naturally be expected, from 
the comparative scarcity of lakes throughout the latter country. 
Many of the other islands of Strangford Lough were, in Harris's 
work, called after their productions, as certain birds, fishes, 
plants, &c., nearly all of which are at present to be found upon 
them at some season of the year. A Goose island, indeed, ap- 
pears, but, like those deriving their name from the Swan, it lias 
vanished from the later maps. Doubtless the island was named 
from the circumstance either of the bird breeding there or fre- 
quenting it ; but, as in the other case, when the bird ceased to do 
so, the locality lost its distinctive appellation. In winter, wild 
swans (as already mentioned) and wild geese still occasionally 
visit Strangford Lough. There is a Swan island also in Larne 
Lough, county Antrim. 
BEWICK'S SWAN. 
Cygnus BewicJcii , Yarr. 
,, Islandicus, Brehm. 
Is probably a regular winter visitant ; 
But cannot at present be announced with certainty as more than 
an occasional one, to the coast and inland waters. 
I published the following matter on this species, to the note 
of March the 17th, 1836, inclusive, in the first volume of the 
f Magazine of Zoology and Botany,' previous to which time I 
had recorded its occurrence in Ireland : — 
“ In the winter of 1829-30, a specimen of Bewick's swan, shot 
on Lough Neagh, was brought to Belfast market. It was pur- 
chased for the Natural History Society of that town, and set up 
for their museum — the sternum, trachea, &c. being carefully pre- 
served. In February 1830, a flock containing seven of these 
swans alighted in a flooded meadow near Belfast, where they were 
shot at, and two of them so disabled by the one discharge, as to 
be, after some difficulty, secured. They were purchased by my 
friend Wm. Sinclaire, Esq. ; and on their wounds being found so 
