BIRDS OF IRELAND 
Order NATATORES. 
(Swimming Birds.) 
THE GREAT WILD SWAN. 
Hooper ; Whistling Swan. 
Cygnus ferns , Ray. 
,, musicus, Bechst. 
Anas cygnus, Linn. 
Visits Ireland occasionally, — perhaps regularly,— in 
winter. 
Of this species, as distinguished with certainty from Cygnus 
BewicJcii, I have the following notes. In the winter of 1829-30, 
a couple, shot in Strangford Lough, two miles from Newtownards, 
were brought on sale to Belfast. An old male, shot on the coast 
of Wexford in 1830, and a young male, since obtained, within 
four miles of Waterford, were purchased by Dr. R. J. Burkitt, 
of that city, for his collection. Two birds, shot on the Wexford 
coast in March 1837, were sent to Dublin, where they came under 
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