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Ymmg in .firsf 'teowml.sll-»gray; • ttte ,Mpper|pj»H ' 
wliite tinged witfe wl^te. BSH, from the hMv.- 
fomhtM to tite nslg®. mottled with pisikiftfe'; 
hrown, Hp^ ol mandiMes asxd^ges. v^ 
the upper, -white, with dark edges to 
scales.. • ■ ' 
Yrnm 5?i id dusky on the crown at?# 
black; 'nail wMtish; fe?f 
00 ^^ of Bewick’s swan is m^^rs- 
A^C the w.«.tK)per, and ijidudes Non^ 
'fein:; t>ic. Wh.lt e »t??!'erds, KolgneY, Novaya Zemlia ariW 
sit&: fM-"^m Ihe of the Lesia; from thence eastwar«' 
fea," is taken by hisr^er# fopoadec > billed form, which has been s^'-’ 
tHider the name Cygnm pnkitmkH by Mr S, N. Alph^raky. ip^ 
.wlriter It; migrates south warda to Western and -Gentral Europe, th-. 
Ciaspian Sea, China and Japan. It is sometimes' found in severe weathf -?' 
m for soutii as the Mediterranean, and appears to occur accidentally m 
t.he' great lakes of Algeria. • • 
BistnS^mkn in t'ks BriHsk hk:i.^To the British Isles it is, a regular winter^ 
viskot. In Scot.lasuh espedally in the Outer Hebrides, it is sometimes very 
smmevQm', also In the north and west of 'Ireland, wh.ere it is far morr 
abu:.iJ.d'S*.i»?.t than the wltor^per, and' sometimes seen in vast fiocks. In Eng- 
ted Wales it H okcf^^ met with during severe weather, but 
■ 'tJmM . . 
mk>^ ta oC th^ wiiooper, bat the eggs zm 
beteg 4*0 by 5^*6 xnchejs, 
as In the allied species., 
}m40^my'd tha.n in the whooper, and 
the kH>p m a keel of the sternum reaches 
nearly to the mMmnhj of iki'O The caM is very dl^ren? 
from that of the wh«K?f«*. a»d'rese«%^f ?-'lsi5r repeated severa; 
limes, 
The food, general habla, of nre very similar.tc^ 
those of the whopper. The wj&lght' It aboii^'-.'?3 
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